Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" - FLNWO #35
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You've probably heard all about Upton Sinclair's 1906 expose of the turn-of-the-century American meatpacking industry and the Chicago stockyards...but everything you've heard about it is wrong. The book wasn't an expose of the meatpackers, the legislation it inspired served to help the industry it sought to punish, and Sinclair himself hated the end result of his book, which aimed for the heart and hit the stomach by accident. Join us for this month's edition of the Film, Literature and the New World Order as we learn not to trust what's on the label of mainline history.
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SHOW NOTES:
The Jungle (Free Audiobook)
Upton Sinclair - Spartacus Schoolnet
History Brief: Teddy's Food and Drug Regulation
Horse Meat, Hanford Leak, Obama’s Oscar
Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent
Why Government Regulation is a Lie (and what you can do about it)
Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism
Meat Packers Rape You – And You Love It
How the Wholesome Meat Act Gives Us Less Wholesome Meat
Last month’s episode and comments: Three Days of the Condor
Next month: The poetry of F.R. Scott
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