Food Quality Protection Act

Before the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed by the United States law in 1976, the human population was believed to have been exposed to a multitude of chemical substances and mixtures. These chemicals were beginning to cause a lot of health problems to humans. This caused the lawmakers to believe that among the substances that are being constantly developed and produced, there are some whose manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use or disposal may present an unreasonable…

Sinclair began to release his findings as a serial in Appeal to Reason, nearly doubling the newspaper’s circulation in about a year. After rejection by five different publishers, The Jungle was released as a novel in 1906. It was an instant success; meat sales plummeted, it was translated into 17 languages so that immigrants could also read it, and thousands of letters were written to the White House calling for meatpacking reform. President Theodore Roosevelt, not believing what he read,…

human history, there have always been people who step up to make a change in our world. When people encounter something they don’t like they want to change it. The author of The Jungle and the producers of Food, Inc. are no exception. Both The Jungle and Food, Inc. set out to reveal the food industry and they have changed the what people know ever since. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 with a clear purpose, to expose the American meatpacking industry and the lives or immigrants living…

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…

lead to better regulation of labor and food distribution laws. Sinclair's novel is brought to life through the eyes of a Lithuanian immigrant by the name of Jurgis Rudkus, a meatpacker at Brown and Durnham’s meatpacking industries. The novel did a lot to revolutionize the way we view food and how it it is handled, sanitized and distribution of these products. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is still notorious present day for its shocking revelations about food, but while discussing these things it…

One major issue involving political machines was the Spoils System. People, primarily middle-class, would only be able to attain occupations in civil programs if they were in good standing with a political boss. Through reform, however, the Pendleton Act was passed and an area of civil service was born. Overtime, political machines lost their influence with constant instability of political parties, eventually falling apart completely. As political machines deteriorated in urban regions,…

important acts and agencies that are implemented. A common example of a muckraker is Upton Sinclair. Sinclair is the author of The Jungle, which is a book that focuses on the poor working conditions of a food factory in Chicago. This book, written in 1906, includes graphic language which allows for Americans to realize what really is going on in the process of making food (Costly 2008). As a result of Upon Sinclair, the United States creates the Food and Drug Act, or FDA. The FDA regulates how…

by Upton Sinclair and he was disgusted and immediately started to reform our health guidelines for what we eat. He passed the Meat Inspection Act, which made it so that all meat made and sold, must be inspected before shipping out. He also created the Food and Drug Administration, which regulated all the ingredients put in foods, the inspections of said foods, and to make sure everything was safe for the consumer's consumption. In addition, he was…

ate where they worked. This raised the eyebrows of many readers when Sinclair showed the sanitary conditions of the meat and it even reached the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt and acted by signing the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The book had a significant impact politically and socially that has not been established since the infamous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the early 1850s. Not only did Mr.Sinclair expose the…

to the food safety, the government passed the Pure Food and Drug Act in June 30, 1906, and the Meat Inspection Act in the same day. Therefore, the government did respond to the public concern in regarded to food safety. Although the primary goal of the Pure Food and Drug Act was to protect consumers, this law had made a huge impact on many large food companies. With the existing of the low price of adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, it increased the competition among the food and…