The two major meat packer owners, J. Ogden Armour and Gustavus Swift, fought Sinclair, the public and the government on all the accusations that were made in The Jungle. They believed that they should be able to
run their business their own way without major government interference.
"In Armour & Co.'s business not one atom of condemned animal or carcass finds its way, directly or indirectly, from any source, into food product or food ingredient. Every meat animal and every carcass slaughtered in the Union Stockyards, or in the stock yards at any of the markets of the United States, is carefully inspected by the United States Goverment."
run their business their own way without major government interference.
"In Armour & Co.'s business not one atom of condemned animal or carcass finds its way, directly or indirectly, from any source, into food product or food ingredient. Every meat animal and every carcass slaughtered in the Union Stockyards, or in the stock yards at any of the markets of the United States, is carefully inspected by the United States Goverment."