The Pure Food And Drug Act In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The Pure food and drug act was and still is a needed policy for our relatively young nation, because if it wasn’t instated we would still be consuming Chalked thinned milk and Diseased meat from improper food processing and sale of these botched products. This improper use or mishaps still happen to this modern day and this act has been in effect since 1906 just a little over a hundred years. Considering the most recent contamination of this is with iceberg and romaine lettuce and it was four days ago or found out about on April fourteenth of two thousand and eighteen with the bacteria E. coli with a total of thirty-five people have become sick; including three people suffering from kidney failure, no one currently has died. The point is if …show more content…
Another upstart for this clean food movement was the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair who was a Progressive/Muckraker and his exact words about the popularity of the book and the social uproar it caused was “I aimed for the Publics heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach”. Upton Sinclair’s book is a deeply graphic depiction into the Chicago meat packing industry and how meat was cut from diseased cattle and for ground meat that there were no safety protocols in place to protect employees. Upton Sinclair even went as far to tell the people how one of the employees fell into a grinder and they did not stop production at all and clean the machine and on top of it all continued to sell this contaminated meat that had human flesh in it. Another reason for the regulation for this industry is health protection/benefits because if the employee happens to hurt themselves with the machine or equipment supplied the employee was fired given no pay or health care for such accident or if something happened to where an employee dies on the job they would not inform their family they just fell off the face of the earth and they wouldn’t know what