standards for food served in school cafeterias. Congress should create a single food safety agency. State and federal authorities must consider looking at the meatpacking industry’s injury rate from a new perspective. OSHA should greatly increase its fines‚ in addition to mandatory plant closures and criminal charges for negligence when meatpacking employees are injured or killed. Also the
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The American Dream has been a great symbol for hope in the better for the immigrants presented by the author‚ Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair in the book‚ The Jungle‚ argued that the meatpacking industry in Packingtown had caused so many deaths‚ injuries‚ and corruptions which weakened the American Dream. Sinclair supported his argument by demonstrating the poor conditions of an immigrant couple‚ Jurgis and Ona‚ and their immigrant family through the use of pathos to bring out emotion of the evils
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Reform of corrupt businesses and government first drew attention at local and state levels. Big businesses in the late 1800s preferred profit over patriotism‚ credit over honor‚ individual gain over national prosperity‚ and trade and dickering over principles. It was not until 1901‚ when Theodore Roosevelt became president‚ that progressivism was brought to the national level. During Roosevelt’s presidency‚ he would push reform as much as possible by strengthening the power of the federal government
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book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair the author gives a critique of the early twentieth century labor practices in the growing cities of the United States. It gives people an opportunity to see all the factors that were going on not only in the meatpacking industry‚ but also the way working people lived and all the challenges that they had to overcome to just be able to survive. It also shows how the working conditions are in the city of Chicago. It shows how workers did their tasks in unsanitary
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the United States at the time. 1905‚ in particular‚ was a historic year when a surge of over 1 million immigrants came to the city. During this time‚ author Upton Sinclair was working undercover‚ investigating working conditions in the city’s meatpacking district. Sinclair’s research was integrated into his novel The Jungle‚ a tragic story about a group of immigrants from Lithuania led by Jurgis‚ the main character that is set on providing for his family while chasing the American dream.
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This is a story of a Lithuanian immigrant name Jurgis Rudkus who came to America with his new bride Ona and their families. Like all immigrants who come to America hoping to like the America dream he moves his family to America to work in a meatpacking company in Chicago. This story tells of the hardships of Jurgis and his family‚ they encounter a lot of difficulties Starvation and poverty‚ hard and unsafe working conditions‚ crooked businessman who took their money‚ and corrupt politicians who made
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In the documentary Food Inc.‚ the farmer Joel Salatin claimed that “If we put glass walls on all the mega-processing facilities‚ we would have a different food system in this country.” I understand what Salatin meant by his statement‚ I credit his statement as accurate‚ and I predict that several changes would occur if mega-processing facilities consisted of glass walls. When Salatin stated‚ “If we put glass walls on all the mega-processing facilities‚ we would have a different food system in this
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Friday Oct 18th 8:00 AM DUE Youngmin Son How did the Progressive movement successfully improve the lives of the average American between 1890 and 1920? Between 1890 and 1920‚ the progressive movement successfully improved the lives of the average American. The purpose of the progressive was to bring reforms that would correct problems that industrialization and urbanization had created troubling social and political problems. Some problems included women’s right to vote‚ child
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Both the fact that means there is so little farmers and so much criminals. 3. “Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats‚ sneakers‚ stuffed animals‚ and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated‚ potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.” Reading this book has made me understand the type of stuff that is in what we eat‚ it is absolutely garbage. The quote is 100% right
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CASE ONE: THE MEATPACKING FACTORY The Meatpacking Factory is a case study involving the decision of a factory manager to let his Muslim workers observe their faith by taking breaks at sunrise and sundown during their holy month of Ramadan. James Windham‚ the factory manager‚ thought their request was well warranted and felt he should be considerate of the religious beliefs of his employees. There are about 100 Muslim workers which represents 20% of the employee population at the factory. To Windham’s
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