Upton Sinclair, ed. (18781968). The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.
Pure Food Agitation
By Martin Luther
(German religious reformer, 14831564)
THEY have learned the trick of placing such commodities as pepper, ginger, saffron, in damp vaults or cellars in order to increase the weight. Nor is there a single article of trade whatever out of which they cannot make unfair profit by false measuring, counting or weighing. They produce artificial colors, or they put the pretty things at the top and bottom and the ugly ones in the middle; and indeed there is no end to their trickery, and no one tradesman will trust another, for they know each others ways.