Question

the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one - there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. there was no place for the men to wash their hands before their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. there were the butt - ends of salted meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and one of these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. every spring they did it, excerpt from upton sinclairs the jungle (1906). which bill was most likely passed because of the influence of the passage seen here? a the pendleton act b the pure food and drug act c the keating - owen child labor act d the federal employees compensation act

Explanation:

The passage describes unsanitary conditions in the meat - packing industry. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed to regulate food and drug safety, which is relevant to the issues depicted. The Pendleton Act pertains to civil service reform, the Keating - Owen Child Labor Act to child labor, and the Federal Employees' Compensation Act to employee compensation.

Answer:

B. The Pure Food and Drug Act