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The muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair is best remembered for his 1906 book “The Jungle,” which exposed the grotesque conditions endured by both workers and livestock in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. It sold millions of copies, stirring the country. President Theodore Roosevelt called on the 27-year-old Sinclair to give him a firsthand account, culminating in a pure-food…