

If memory serves, this joke was the zeitgeist in which Upton Sinclair found himself in 1905-1906.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his muckraking fictional novel, The Jungle, which exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.[1]
I wasn’t pointing fingers at you in particular, but I ctrl+F Sinclair and found nothing so someone needed to hear about it