Where’s Sinclair Lewis when you need him?
You talking about Upton Sinclair?(and by extension, the book “The Jungle”?) Ultimately that would only result in is bigger and bigger government anyways.
As a slightly aside note, you may like this:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Everybody_s_Magazine/IoQDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA608
“What is the truth about this Federal inspection? To put it into one sentence-again following Mr. Armour’s example by using italics-it is this: That the Federal inspection of meat was, historically, established at the packers’ request; that it is maintained and paid for by the people of the United States for the benefit of the packers; that men wearing the blue uniforms and brass buttons of the United States service are employed for the purpose of certifying to the nations of the civilized world that all the diseased and tainted meat which happens to come into existence in the United States of America is carefully sifted out and consumed by the American people.
This is a strong statement; and yet I might go even farther. I might say this also: that the laws regulating the inspection of meat were written by the packers, and written by the packers for the express purpose of making this whole condemned-meat industry impossible of prevention. The Federal inspectors have power to condemn meat, but they have no power to destroy it.”
(p. 612/612)
Sinclair is condemning progressivism in the strongest terms here. Sinclair was a “socialist’s socialist”, to use a phrase. He desperately wanted all meat processing to be nationalized and taken over by the federal government - to use the classic socialist rubric, Sinclair wanted government control over the means of (this) production. The quoted passage from his article makes that abundantly clear. It also makes clear that he hated the idea of regulation as conceived by progressives. He viewed excess administration and bureaucratic despotism as chicanery that favored “big meat” because it ended up leaving this specific means of production (meat packing/processing) in private hands which is illegal under socialist ideology.