Upton Sinclair, author of “The Jungle”, focuses more on the unethical way meat was handled in a factory in Chicago during the early 1900s. Any kind of meat could be used to make sausages no matter how it was taken care of. Old moldy meat that had fallen in dirt and sawdust on the floor was put into the grinding machine. Meat could have been sitting in rooms where rats would run on top of it. After the sausage was made, some of it would be smoked and labeled as special so it could be sold for 2¢ more a pound.

Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation”, focuses on the dangers of workers in a Colorado meat factory. They had to work in a very noisy area because of all the power tools running simultaneously, which would slice the meat. It was in a humid area, which would bring out all the horrid smells of dead animals. Workers were dressed in white coats to provide armor that is suppose to prevent cuts, but the tools were so sharp that they would easily puncture the suit and bare flesh.

Eric Schlosser is more trustworthy in his account because he visited a factory in Colorado and is giving a first person account of what hardships he saw the workers go through. Upton Sinclair wrote a fictionalized account based upon real dangers of eating meat from an industry by describing a made up family that worked in Chicago. His story is not as accurate because he does not provide a source for his information even though people knew what the meat-packing industry was all about.