Meat Inspection Act

Sinclair, U. (2002). The jungle (C.V. Eby, Ed., Norton critical ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1906) This is a review on select meat packing issues raised in The Jungle regarding organized crime, government action/inaction, food and worker safety, and reform in the early 1900s. Packingtown is “a section of southwest Chicago,” comprised of “stockyards, slaughter-houses, factories, and cramped and filthy living quarters” (Sinclair, 1906/2002, p. vii). The Jungle…

A majority of these industrial mishaps were the result of laceration to the hand or fingers. During the inspection, it was discovered that Job Safety Training Outlines across the unit is, lacking the proper use, care, fit, limitation and location for PPE used in each section. It is all supervisors’ reasonability to ensure all personal are trained properly before…

If vegans try so hard to emulate the tastes of meats and animal products, the healthy way is to just consume the real thing. The popularity of becoming a vegan has risen in the past decade because of organizations falsely “exposing” the meat and the meat-packing industries. Those industries and the government have heavily regulated systems and laws in favor of treating the animals justly, and many studies have been done by the companies to make sure that they are doing so. For example, many…

her mortgage lender requires an inspection prior to loan approval. But, before all that happens you can choose to order and pay for a home inspection for your own purposes. Although it will cost you a few hundred dollars out of your own pocket, it can be well worth it to know in advance what the buyer 's inspector is likely to find at some point in the future and you won 't be surprised and possibly disappointed later. This article is basically about home inspection for dummies. Whenever real…

States farm animals are raised on factory farms” (“Factory Farms”). “Every year, 9 billion chickens are slaughtered for meat in the United States” (“Farming Sanctuary”). 1 in every 5 animals on factory farms die from stress and disease…

a visual on the kind of “meat” they actually ate, how the food was treated, as well as how the animals lived amongst the people during the time before the process into food began. Sinclair once stated, “I aimed at the public’s heart by accident hit it’s stomach.” Sinclair’s intentions were to inform people of the poor conditions the immigrants faced during this time while featuring the horrific details of food; everyone’s center of attention remained on the unsanitary meat products. Even though,…

majority of this meat. These factory farms unethically produce meat at low prices, which leads Americans to consume animals at alarming rates. The U.S. government must slowly shift from subsidizing factory farms that produce unethical low cost meat to higher priced organic farms certified with the United States Department of Agriculture’s organic seal of approval. This will reduce meat consumption, damage to the…

various other detestable acts, is what media tends to show about the meat production side of the food industry. Those aforementioned videos paint a picture of companies that care only about turning a profit not the animal’s welfare. Sure some companies couldn’t care less about animals but, many do. Many companies show they care by making changes in animal production to give a more relaxed environment and more humane slaughter methods. So, despite what people see in the media the meat industry as…

that people do not wish to discuss. Consumers increasingly want to push slaughterhouses out of sight and out of mind, and slaughterhouse companies have been happy to oblige (Fitzgerald, 2010). We know that there is a readily supply of all types of meat, yet we turn a blind eye to think of what the animal has gone through in order for us to eat…

In many real estate transactions, home inspections are the first and the last actions taken by the home’s seller. There reasons for both instances are beneficial to the seller for determining the condition of the home and establishing the market listing price. Most homeowners have a sense of pride in their home and from time to time there are mishaps that can surprise the seller resulting in costly expenses for repaid. It’s worth having specialists check the areas a home inspector of your…