Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Norman Hapgood ghọrọ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke "Collier's" na 1903, ọ dọtara ọtụtụ ndị edemede a ma ama. N'ọnwa Mee afọ 1906, ọ gwara Jack London ka ọ kọọ akụkọ gbasara
Ala ọma jijiji nke San Francisco, akụkọ ya na peeji 16 nke ihe osise. N'okpuru nduzi Hapgood, "Collier's" malitere ibipụta ọrụ nke ndị nta akụkọ nyocha dị ka Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ray Stannard Baker, C.P. Connolly na Ida Tarbell. Ụzọ Hapgood si mee ihe nwere mmetụta dị ukwuu, na-ebute mgbanwe ndị dị ka mgbanwe nke iwu ụmụaka na-arụ ọrụ, mkpochapụ nke ogige ndị dara ogbenye na ikike ụmụ nwanyị. N'ọnwa Eprel afọ 1905, Upton Sinclair dere otu isiokwu isiokwu ya bụ "Chicago Meat Clean?", nke mere ka ndị omeiwu mee ka e mee iwu a kpọrọ Meat Inspection Act n'afọ 1906.