Letter To Congressmen Research Paper

Dear US Congressmen, My family, my neighbors, my city of Chicago risk our lives daily by eating contaminated and tainted meat produced in our town, but we cannot do anything to prevent it without you, congressmen. If you vote for the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to pass, millions of lives will be saved from something as little as headaches and nausea to something as fatal as dysentery or tuberculosis. In an inspection in the late 1890’s, Armour and Company distributed 750 cases of rotten, embalmed beef to soldiers across our nation causing a countless number of deaths. Is this how we should treat the men who fight to protect our nation? However, meat is not the only killer lurking in our diet. Feeding our children dirty,