Question Earthority!

“For many young people, ‘The Jungle’ is required reading in high-school classes, where they are led to believe that unscrupulous capitalists were routinely tainting our meat, and that moral crusader Upton Sinclair rallied the public and forced government to shift from pusillanimous bystander to heroic do-gooder, bravely disciplining the marketplace to protect its millions of victims. But this is a triumph of myth over reality, of ulterior motives over good intentions. Reading ‘The Jungle’ and assuming it’s a credible news source is like watching ‘The Blair Witch Project’ because you think it’s a documentary.” (for publication 08/06)