Upton ’s 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
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The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) was a United States Congress Act that worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to imported meat products‚ which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards. USDA inspection of poultry was added by the Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957. The Food and Drug Administration
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The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair can be considered one of the most influential novels written at the beginning of the 20th century. Though largely known as the book that resulted in the creation of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ The Jungle illustrated the harsh working conditions and ruthless competition that plagued the meat-packing plants in Chicago. Sinclair’s original intention for writing the book was to point out the flaws of capitalism‚ the greed that plagued society
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Upton Sinclair was born on September 20‚ 1878 and he passed away on November 25‚ 1968. He was an activist and socialist. He was involved in socialism‚ which inspired him to write The Jungle and expose the tendencies of the corrupt society he was living in. His book was published on February 26‚ 1906. He was born to a father who was an alcoholic and a mother who struggled with poverty. He was exposed to the life of the lower class which influenced his portrayal of the struggles he discussed in his
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Professor Villarreal June 28‚ 2011 Meat Inspection “Meat Inspection‚” by Gabriel Kolko‚ is a short story concerning the nature and processes of the meat packing industry and the laws that emerged to maintain the safety of their facilities and the products before human consumption during the Progressive Era. In the early twentieth century‚ the publishing of a novel by Upton Sinclair containing the truth behind meat packing corporations changed American food industries to this day and revealed the nature
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Madge Saunders made a huge contribution to childhood education in Jamaica. She was instrumental in facilitating the training of basic schoolteachers‚ having worked previously for the Kelly Lawson Training Centre‚ a tourist industry-training organisation. Whilst working as a travelling organiser for the United Church in Jamaica‚ she saw that untrained people were running several schools for small children. In 1950‚ she selected six people from six different parishes and ran
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FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION ASSIGNMENT 1 DISCUSS METHODS OF PACKAGING MEAT (25) AN ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MODULE: FSN 206: MEAT TECHNOLOGY BY DAVID SONGA R121204P SUBMITTED ON: 13/03/13 Meat packaging The function of packaging is to surround or wrap meat products with suitable protective material. Packaging materials were in the old days simple natural materials‚ e.g. leaves‚ but
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This research will present an analysis of traditional dry hanging method of meat and more recent wet hanging method. It will explain enzymatic activities on the meat before and after animal’s death and affects on the meat quality also‚ how those reactions assist flavour and tenderisation development process. It will look at hanging times for different animal carcasses and identify the reason why are not all meats hung for the same amount of time. The research will discus the cost‚ quality and
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Kaylie Lewis APUSH Turning Points in American history 3rd 1-4-16 Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. Cambridge‚ MA: R. Bentley‚ 1971. Print. Upton Sinclair had a very successful life which gave him many qualifications for all the books he has written. When he first thought of the idea for “The Jungle” he decided that he should go undercover for seven weeks inside of an actual meatpacking plant in Chicago‚ in order to get all the information he would need to accurately write his novel. He was also well
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Lit Analysis The Jungle Workers and citizens today have Upton Sinclair to thank for the improved working conditions and higher regulations in the food industry. In The Jungle‚ Upton Sinclair uses vivid imagery and figurative language to expose the extremely unpleasant working conditions of immigrants and the Capitalist ideology of early 1900’s Chicago . A large Lithuanian family comes to Chicago in hopes for better life and work. The main character Jurgis is eager to work after a new marriage
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