The Slaughterhouse Student #: 196012 HST 340 American Social History Sean Christy March 5‚ 2009 The Slaughterhouse Catalyst “The Jungle” (Sinclair‚ 1946) peaked my interest in how meat was processed‚ stored‚ and shipped to consumers. Initially Sinclair was paid to write an expose for a socialist magazine to find incriminating information on the establishment The Durham Slaughterhouse in particular had drawn attention because its employees had went on
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reforms and make the American life better. In “The Jungle – Upton Sinclair” it was stated the meat packing industry was being very unsanitary by the way they produced their meat. It also said that there were other things inside the meat that are not supposed to be inside the meat‚ like mold‚ rats‚ insects‚ and other things. As well as things that are not supposed to be in the meat‚ they also used the meat even if it was rotten‚ and made it into something else. Some of the reforms made to stop this
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recalled. In February of 2014 alone‚ the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have reported twelve companies with food product recalls (Food‚ n.d.) What is a food recall? According to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) a food recall is a voluntary action by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems or possible death. A recall is intended to remove food products from commerce when there is reason
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the workers and shocked readers. Sinclair had intended it as an attack upon capitalist enterprise‚ but readers reacted viscerally. The novel was so influential that it spurred government regulation of the industry‚ as well as the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. In Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York(1890)‚ Riis showed through photo journalism how people in lower class communities lived. In How the Other Half Lives he describes
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professionally. The cooks are all wearing gloves so that bacteria from their hands don’t contaminate the meat. Both the refrigerator and the freezer are well
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During the period of 1900 to 1920‚ Progressive Era reformers and the federal government were only able to get partial reform at the national level. Both helped with such reforms as to limit the control of trusts‚ enact child labor laws‚ improve sanitation‚ and give voting rights to women. Though‚ these changes were not as effective as they may seem‚ since corporations and individuals often neglected them‚ making them of no useful value. What is known as the time of progress was hardly of
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now‚ the government and the public opinion has been overshadowed by the upcoming presence of major corporations. American politicians have been caught in the dark entanglements of corporate affairs. With the food industries and companies‚ such as the Meat Industry and Monsanto‚ their intricate‚ deeply rooted ties with the government through bribes‚ donations to officials causes‚ and black mail‚ these companies are deceiving the American consumer into eating foods that are potentially
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S***** **m**** 3.5.2013 ENG 102 P1 Final The Giving Tree vs “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”: Use of the grotesque and the human experience. The commonality between Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s “The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree‚ is the exploitation of a grotesque character and the sacrifices they make for the sake of their relationships and situation. Each exploited character represents that gullible and somewhat easily exploitable part of us
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monopolies‚ socially‚ concerning the meat inspection and civil rights‚ and politically‚ with more direct democracy. First of all the social aspect of the Progressive Era had its ups and downs in terms of the civil rights movements of both African-Americans and Woman‚ labor laws‚ and food laws. Upton Sinclair‚ a socialist‚ published The Jungle‚ which exhibited the Chicago meatpacking plants. The book showed the poor working conditions for the employees and how poorly the meat was processed as shown in Document
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Willie’ and needed a 3 men to work it. Its maximum speed was 3mph and it could not cross trenches. Food At the start of the war soldiers got one pound of meat‚ one pound of bread and 8 ounces of veg. Soup and gruel were the most common meal for a soldier in the trenches these were normally served with potatoes or hard bread. The veg and meat normally came from the undestroyed farms from surrounding
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