... shocked most American's are how people worked and the conditions at the meat packing plants. The man who was supposed to be checking animals for tuberculosis would sometimes miss some of the animals because he was carrying on a conversation. This could mean that many animals went past him who might have the disease without him even knowing. Rats would also fall into the meat ... ...
... could trample anyone to death. "A time of peril on the killing beds was when a steer broke loose. Sometimes, in the haste of speeding-up, they would dump one of the animals out on the floor before it was fully stunned...in the wintertime it was enough to make your hair stand up, for the room would be so full of steam ... man's task to clean these out, and shovel their contents into one of the trucks with the rest of the meat!" (60-61). Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Fo...
