The meat packers. the people of chicago saw the government inspectors in packingtown, and they all took that to mean that they were protected from diseased meat. they did not understand that these hundred and sixty-three inspectors had been appointed at the request of the meat packers, and that they were paid by the united states government to certify that all the diseased meat was kept in the state. meat inspectors made sure that meat sold out of state or country was safe. diseased meat was supposed to be disposed of. but a physician made the discovery that the carcasses of steers which had been condemned as tubercular by the government inspectors were carted away to be sold in the city. he insisted that these carcasses be treated with an injection of kerosene—and was ordered to resign the same week! so indignant were the meat packers over this intrusion that they compelled the mayor to abolish the whole bureau of inspection. since then there has not been even a pretense of any interference with the graft. there was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard. jurgis heard of these things little by little from other workers. it seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes. there was, for instance, a lithuanian who was a cattle butcher for the plant where marija had worked, which killed meat for canning only; his descriptions of the animals which came to his place were hellish. it seemed that they searched the country for old and crippled and diseased cattle to be canned. there were cattle that had been fed refuse and had become covered with boils. it was stuff such as this that made the "embalmed beef" that had killed several times as many united states soldiers as did bullets in the spanish-american war. based only on the information in this passage, which best describes the author's viewpoint? a. he wants to see animals treated more humanely b. he wants to see reform in the meat industry c. he wants to see improved conditions for laborers.