For This Question,refer to the Following Excerpt from a Cookbook

For this question,refer to the following excerpt from a cookbook that won a prize from the American Public Health Association in 1890. For family of six,average price 78 cents per day,or 13 cents per person.
) ..I am going to consider myself as talking to the mother of a family who has six mouths to feed,and no more money than this to do it with.Perhaps this woman has never kept accurate accounts....I have in mind the wife [who has] time to attend to the housework and children.If a woman helps earn,as in a factory,doing most of her housework after she comes home at night,she must certainly have more money than in the first case in order to accomplish the same result....
[Sample spring menu]
Breakfast.Milk Toast.Coffee.
Dinner.Stuffed Beef's Heart.Potatoes stewed with Milk.Dried Apple Pie.Bread and Cheese.Corn Coffee.
Supper.Noodle Soup (from Saturday) .Boiled Herring.Bread.Tea.
Mary Hinman Abel,Promoting Nutrition,1890
The excerpt above was most likely a reaction to

A) industrial culture in the United States leading to greater opportunities for women.
B) political machines providing social services in exchange for political support.
C) the divided social conditions that cities reflected among classes,cultures,and ethnicities.
D) arguments that the wealthy had some obligation to help the less fortunate.