Responding to international outcry and eager to regulate the beef trust, President Roosevelt commissioned Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds to investigate Sinclair’s claims. They returned with evidence that Sinclair’s findings were true.
[James B. Reynolds, Charles P. Neill. "Neill-Reynolds Report".Hearings on the So-Called "Beveridge Amendment". 1906.]
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[James B. Reynolds, Charles P. Neill. "Neill-Reynolds Report". Hearings on the So-Called "Beveridge Amendment". 1906.]
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Meatpackers“Scrupulous cleanliness is ordered and enforced.”[J. Odgen Armour. The Packers: The Private Car Lines, and the People.] |
Investigators“An absence of cleanliness was also found everywhere in the handling of meat being prepared for the various meat-food products.”[James B. Reynolds, Charles P. Neill. "Neill-Reynolds Report". Hearings on the So-Called "Beveridge Amendment". 1906.] |
[Upton Sinclair. Letter. 10 Mar. 1906.]
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The undeniably tragic working conditions and horrifying food quality convinced the legislature to regulate the meatpacking industry.
[Skeleton Additives. 1919.]
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