Steve Cortes, RealClearPolitics
More than a century ago, Upton Sinclair galvanized America with his novel “The Jungle,” in which he detailed the harsh treatment of laborers and unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meat slaughterhouses. Sinclair made infamous a section of the Chicago River known as “Bubbly Creek” — where the water literally bubbled from the massive amounts of animal blood and waste dumped into the river. Today the stockyards are long gone, and Chicago is no longer “Hog Butcher to the World,” as poet Carl Sandberg wrote.
Source: Real Clear Politics