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Week 9- November 13th : Book that makes you sick
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Nov 13, 2011 07:34PM
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well i havent read any nasty books at all
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
the giver because i dislike it so bad
Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
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Upton Sinclair's muckraking masterpiece, The Jungle (1906), provides a (way too) detailed description of Chicago's meatpacking industry. Despite the fact that this is a novel, the majority of the book is based on Sinclair's research on the inner workings of Chicago's slaughterhouses. Some historians claim that Teddy Roosevelt created the Food and Drug Administration after reading this book. Here is one particularly sickening example that may have inspired TR:
"All day long the blazing midsummer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations: upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks and huge blocks of dingy meat factories, whose labyrinthine passages defied a breath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there are not merely rivers of hot blood and carloads of moist flesh, and rendering-vats and soup cauldrons, glue-factories and fertilizer tanks, that smelt like the craters of hell-there are also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry and dining rooms littered with food black with flies, and toilet rooms that are open sewers." Chapter 26, pg. 328
Incidentally, this is also a great book and well worth a read.
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