The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 70)

by Robert J. Gordon

The immediate response to the campaign inspired by the book was a halving of meat consumption. Even in the late 1920s, meat packers were still struggling to boost meat sales back to anything approaching their pre-1906 heyday, as shown in table 3-2. This was not only because of the lingering effects of The Jungle, but also because of the higher costs incurred by federal government inspection of all beef carcasses or products that entered into interstate commerce.