... to the processing of cattle, sheep, horses, swine and goats destined for human consumption: • All animals were required to pass an inspection by the U.S. Drug Administration prior to slaughter • All carcasses were subject to a post-mortem inspection • Cleanliness standards established for slaughterhouses and processing plants A key influence on President Roosevelt was the book The Jungle written by "mukeracker" Upton ... been stricter on the industrialist, it would have forced them to raise prices and create a steep inflation. The 1906 act created a good foundation to build on. To...

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... disturbing and very sad photos of children and mothers lining in small cramped rooms or on the streets. Two muckrakers who focused on the food and drug industry were Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams. Upton Sinclair arguably the most famous muckraker wrote a book titled The Jungle which showed the bad working ... of meat factories. This leads to the passing of the meat inspection act which made food have to be inspected before sold and the pure food and drug act which regulated any sold food and medicines at pharmacies. He stated, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hi...

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... Jurgis injures himself several times. Many of the historical realities, although gruesome, caused positive outcomes to arise from them. One of the major positive outcomes was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. This act came into effect a few years after the publishing of Sinclair's novel. The hair-raising descriptions of what was actually in the meat that American's were ... eating caused the government to take action. Repulsed by Sinclair's descriptions of the meat packing industry, Theodore Roosevelt ended the unsanitary conditions only after reading the book. The Food and Drug Act w...

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... sad to see that factory owners valued their profits more then the health of the nation. From this brief glimpse into the meat packing world developed the Pure Food and Drug Act. This act called for specific sanitation requirements and prohibited the sale of impure labeled foods and drugs. This however was not Sinclair's main intentions of writing the book. He ... they lived anything but the American dream. It gave insight in the harsh realities of capitalism and how during that time it dictated everything. It created the Pure Foods and Drug Act and promoted the growth of a new political...

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The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

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... widely read, mostly because writers with political and social ideals are not popular. The book won Sinclair fame and fortune, and led to the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. After President Theodore Roosevelt read The Jungle, he ordered an investigation of the meat-packing industry. He also met Sinclair and told him that while he disapproved ... ...

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... after its release. Demand for reform grew in America. The Meat inspection Act of 1906 set rules for sanitary meatpacking and government inspection of meat products. The Pure Food and Drug act also passed after the Meat inspection Act of 1906. The packers denied the charges and opposed the bills to no avail. These bills protected the publics right to safe ... ...

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... dust, and doomed to die, every one of them, within a certain definite time." (127) The publication of The Jungle had a great influence on the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and has had a significant impact on how we view public health. "The first public health activities in the United States began in the early nineteenth century in ... ...

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... ). Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration there were new meat-packing laws devised, and quite and uproar with everyone the United States that this could on in a factory. Even though today there are certain restriction ... ...

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... end, she was beaten down so much by the oppressive things that had happened and the life they had been given in Packingtown that she became a prostitute. Also, she became a drug addict, something very uncharacteristic of someone who had once been a very proud and strong woman. The events of their years in Chicago had been so wearisome that they could no ... ...

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... were, and how people at that time were suffering from diseases the factories had given them. This had soon caused President Theodore Roosevelt to issue out the Pure Food And Drug Act, which led to better food quality, and a better examination of factory produced products. Immigration was also another theme that Upton Sinclair brought up, so people could understand what life ... ...

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... should own the industry. The Jungle causes a great deal of commotion in the United States, it caused the government to investigate the food industry and create the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The author purpose on the book is clearly understood, Sinclair was disagreed with the ideas of capitalism and he wanted to convince people that the Socialist movement ... ...

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... 's violent response to The Jungle prompted a government investigation of the meat packing plants in Chicago, changed food laws in America and led to the enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. After reading The Jungle, I can more clearly understand the hardships of workers in the United States during the turn of the century. Sinclair paints a vivid picture that ... ...

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... food-processing industries and more than half of people who read this book became vegetations. As soon as Roosevelt read this book he persuaded congress to get Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act. The Jungle became a part of a reform movement in 20th century and gave encouragement to other muckrakers to do same thing. This makes his place in ... ...

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... to serve this purpose, they are "flung aside." The dehumanizing treatment of Jurgis and thousands of workers just like him leads to the workers" diminished self-esteem and the destructive depression that ensues from such inhumane treatment. Toward the end of the novel Jurgis grows bitter and angry at the realization that he has served the same purpose as the hogs ... ...

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... about the food in which they ingested everyday. After the publishing of this novel, there was widespread horror upon the masses. This led to Roosevelt passing the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, a much needed remedy for this horrific problem. Political change also resulted from the progressive movement. The political structure of that time was founded upon ... ...

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