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"It seemed that he was working in the room where the men prepared the
beef for canning, and the beef had lain in vats full of chemicals, and men
with great forks speared it out and dumped it into trucks, to be taken to
the cooking room. When they had speared out all they could reach, they emptied the vat on the floor, and then with shovels scraped up the balance and dumped it into the truck. This floor was filthy, yet they set
Antanas with his mop slopping the "pickle" into a hole that connected
with a sink, where it was caught and used over again forever; and if that
were not enough, there was a trap in the pipe, where all the scraps of
meat and odds and ends of refuse were caught, and every few days it
was the old man's task to clean these out, and shovel their contents into
one of the trucks with the rest of the meat!" Many historians have argued
that the conditions represented in the novel The Jungle were caused by
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A.) a lack of labor supply in major American industrial centers.

B.) differing hygiene standards brought into the U.S. by immigrants.

C.) the belief that a vegetarian diet was a communist plot.

D.) the country's strict belief in laissez-faire economics.