Meat Packing Improvement For many years our country has had its controversies about meat packing handling procedures and how terrifying hygienically has been handled. In the 1800’s‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ founded the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).He appointed a chemist to lead the division but‚ there was no such knowledge meaning that back then they did not understand how important meat handling was. During the 1900’s the meat packing industry along with the workingmen conditions were
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Sinclair ’s The Jungle was a novel based on one employee who worked for a Chicago ’s meat-packing factory. This detailed novel described horrendous conditions and gruesome visions of contaminated meat. This brought forth significant changes within the meat-packing industry. America ’s business of canned meat was declining within the country as well as the world. Lack of trust and controversy surrounding the meat-industry caused President Roosevelt and Congress to take initiative of the situation. This
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issues arose‚ which called for immediate attention. Jane addams attempted to resolve some of these issues by focusing on poverty‚poor living conditions‚low wages‚ and lastly americanizing immigrants.John sinclair however‚shown some light of the meat packing industry‚ which called for reforms. One of the most prominent contributions that Adams made to the community was the establishment of the Hull house in 1889. Her goal was to draw attention to the moral decay that was occurring
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following subject. For many years‚ the meat packing industry of this town has provided many jobs and generated great amounts of commerce. However‚ the meat packing plants are the epicenter of a huge health risk to Americans everywhere. I recently read an expose called "The Jungle"‚ by . I had merely picked it up through a mutual friend out of curiosity‚ but was quickly wrapped up in reading of the atrocities of the Chicago meat packing plants. Take for example the rodent
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ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies‚ and what is being hidden from us by the food industry. The United States has grown so much in the food industry from the past. One of the industries which accounts for most of the market in the US is the meat packing industry. The top 5 meat industries controlled 25% of the market back in 1970‚ and now that number has risen to an outstanding 80% of the market (“100 Days of Real Food”). This is indeed
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Roach experiences the discrimination of being both a female and an African American worker during her time. Maggot experiences the difficulty being a women on the packing line‚ and Tuck experiences how difficult it is be an Africa American in a manager role. Cod experiences the discrimination of being a scab worker and of Irish decent. The diversity of the characters is intentional in multiple ways. Wallace uses the
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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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achievements of modern industry that they forget the children themselves?" Reformers such as Jane Addams helped the Child Labor Act of 1916 pass with relative ease‚ but when it came to reform in the meat-packing industry change was influenced by many things. Upton Sinclair’s chilling novel‚ The Jungle‚ showed to all the horrors of the meat-packing industry. The Neill-Reynolds Report also laid out the unsanitary conditions in which Americans’ meat was produced. "meat [was] shoveled from filthy
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During this time period the working conditions‚ health issues and metal stability of workers was at an all-time low. Especially in the meat packing industries were this family had to endure many hardships. These problems include overworking their employees‚ failing to maintain basic safety measures‚ as well as being completely unsanitary. An example of this is when Jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse during winter‚ and when he sprains his ankle due to an unsafe work environment
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Eric Schlosser wrote the book “Fast Food Nation” to prove that the fast food industry is solely responsible for many problems that affect today’s society. He begins his argument by explaining how the fast food industry came to be and who made it happen. Carl Karcher was the biggest starting pioneer of this new industry. After his marriage in 1939‚ he bought his first hot dog cart and “by the end of 1994‚ [he] owned 4 hot dog carts in Los Angeles.” His next fast food venture was his Drive-In Barbeque
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