There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up…
There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white–it would be dosed with borax and glycerine and dumped into hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. –Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 What was the immediate response to the practices mentioned in this excerpt?