“I wanted to scare the country with a picture of what its industrial masters were doing to their victims; quite by chance I came across another discovery: what they were doing to the civilized world's meat supply. In other words, I aimed for the audience's heart and, by accident, hit them in the stomach” (Bloom). With the publication of a single book, Upton Sinclair found himself an overnight phenomenon. He received worldwide responses to his novel and invitations to conferences around the world, including one at President Roosevelt's White House. In late 1904, the editor of Appeal to Reason, a socialist magazine, sent Sinclair to Chicago to tell the story of poor working men and women unjustly enslaved by monopolistic corporations. He found that he could go anywhere in the stockyards as long as he "[wore] old clothes ... and [carried] a workman's dinner pail." Sinclair spent seven weeks in Chicago living with and interviewing Chicago workers; study conditions in packaging plants. In addition to gathering more information for his novel, Sinclair made another discovery: filth from inadequate sanitation and spoiled meat processing. With the publication of his novel, Sinclair received an international response to his graphic descriptions of packinghouses. The book is said to have decreased meat consumption in America for decades, and President Roosevelt himself reportedly threw breakfast sausages out the window after reading The Jungle. However, Sinclair classified the novel as a failure and blamed himself for the public's misunderstanding. Sinclair's main purpose in writing the book was to improve the working conditions of Chicago warehouse workers. Sinclair found it... in the middle of the paper... ivity. Sinclair promotes socialism, government-owned companies advocating more rights for their workers, as government-owned companies will focus less on individual profit but on the common good. Sinclair advertises socialism in The Jungle in many ways: a capitalist society provides its workers with disgusting working conditions, a capitalist society consists of corruption across the board, and a socialist society will mean a perfect world. Upton Sinclair was nicknamed by President Roosevelt "a muckraker", a writer who investigates and publishes issues happening across America. While Sinclair's novel didn't do as much for the poor as he hoped, it brought about change in America: stricter meatpacking regulations, cleanliness standards in processing plants, and public knowledge of what Chicago corporations were doing to their corned beef..