Essay within the theme, "The Jungle at 100: A Century of the Journalism of Reform. Involves Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle," and the ABC News "PrimeTime Live" broadcast in 1992 (and again in 1997) about unsanitary food practices at Food Lion, one of the nation's largest food store chains.
Examines why this documentary broadcast on CBS-TV November 25, 1960, failed to spur meaningful improvements in the living and working conditions of migrant agricultural laborers.