He also learns the "recipes" of Durham's "pure leaf lard": the waste products of the cow, including tongue, heart, and intestines. This is then dyed with chemicals and sold as pure lard. Jurgis also learns that horsemeat was used in Durham's but had temporarily been suspended due to an investigation.
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Lard vats aside, many of Sinclair's assertions about the industry were eventually confirmed, and Roosevelt took advantage of the publicity around The Jungle to get two new ... So, go ahead, read The Jungle for its documentary power—just be warned that, as with Durham's Pure Leaf Lard, the label is a little misleading.
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Farnham's Freehold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine (July, August, October...
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The Jungle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote this novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to remove from obscurity the corruption of the...
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In Upton Sinclair's powerful 1906 novel The Jungle , a slaughterhouse worker falls into a large vat of meat being rendered into lard at a Chicago packing plant. His bones are retrieved, but the rest of his body eventually becomes part of Durham's Pure Leaf Lard.
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Sinclair’s graphic descriptions of how meat products were manufactured were an important factor in the subsequent passage of the federal Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act in 1906. Sinclair later commented about the effect of ... Anybody who could invent a new imitation had been sure of a fortune from old Durham,
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A workman slips and falls into a huge vat of meat being rendered into lard at a packing plant. His bones are fished out, but his body dissolves and is eventually packaged into "Durham's Pure Leaf Lard" bound for America's kitchens.
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www.purefood.org/irrad/diseased.cfm
www.purefood.org/irrad/diseased.cfm
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"Sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!" Sinclair wrote.
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A selection of articles related to Lard ... Sinclair’s account of workers falling into meat processing tanks and being ground, with animals parts, into “Durham's Pure Leaf Lard ... » Read the article...
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