Meatpacking Plants-A World of Conspiracy(The Jungle -paper)

The book’s beginnings started out when editors of a popular socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason, sent Sinclair to Chicago to examine the lives of stockyard workers and the meatpacking industry. One book revealed to be an eye-opener to the public and the government, which finally terminated the conspiracy in the meatpacking plants with the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. The act made meat consumption healthier, therefore, saving numerous lives. After government inspection officials examined all aspects of the new act, they would authorize the meat products by stamping it with “U.

The Meat Inspection Act required mandatory inspection of animals (such as cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats), slaughtering conditions, and meat processing facilities to help ensure that meat and meat products were clean, wholesome, and free from disease. He found that the accusations of the industry in Sinclair’s book proved true, which provoked the passage of The Meat Inspection Act of 1906. It was inspired immensely by the 1906 novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which described unsanitary conditions in the Chicago stockyards. The Jungle raised a public outcry against the unhealthy standards in the meatpacking industry. The meatpacking plants would process diseased and unsanitary meat and distribute it among the healthy and sanitized meat, against the regulations of the health inspectors. It even made working conditions more tolerable in the plants. Upton Sinclair couldn’t have fathomed that his book, The Jungle, would impact America’s meatpacking industry for decades. The Jungle was born from this research and was first published in a serial form in Appeal to Reason. Inspected and Passed by Department of Agriculture.