For part of career, the journalist Upton Sinclair was a muckraking journalist and novelist who exposed and publicized the health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.]] | For part of career, the journalist Upton Sinclair was a muckraking journalist and novelist who exposed and publicized the health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.]] |