Question

they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. there were the buttends of smoked 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 among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water - and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast. -upton sinclair, the jungle, 1906 the american public and president roosevelt responded to the information in the excerpt by — a advocating for reforms to working conditions b demanding better school nutrition programs c calling for the regulation of the food industry d working for the passage of the sixteenth amendment

Explanation:

The excerpt from The Jungle exposes unsanitary practices in the meat - packing industry. The American public and President Roosevelt's response was to call for regulation of the food industry to ensure food safety and quality. It was not about working conditions, school nutrition, or the Sixteenth Amendment.

Answer:

C. calling for the regulation of the food industry