Review Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The Book “The Jungle” was written by Upton Sinclair, it explained the critical conditions of meat packing plants. It was a fictional story used to open the eyes of the readers that ate the contaminated meat. Readers then became concerned with the sanitation and health troubles that they may be facing and that they will face. They then began to attack Theodore Roosevelt with letters, full of their concerns with the meat they consumed. Due to the public’s reaction to The Jungle Roosevelt then sent a social worker and a labor commissioner to visit the meat packing plants. After the book, The Jungle, was written and printed, Theodore Roosevelt was highly disturbed by what he had read, he then called up Congress to create a law beginning “The Pure
Food and Drug Act.” Setting up the first federal standard for meat industries. The acts purpose was to stop foreign food and mislabeled or tainted food from being sold. This Act was also used to regain trust of consumers by creating new, safer, regulations. The Meat Inspection Act had impacted inspection processes and also the people who ate the meat from these companies. This act created new inspection and monitoring to require food safety. This Act also allowed for The Pure Food and Drug Act to begin to monitor all other edibles. The Secrecy of Agriculture was then allowed to throw out any food that was unfit for the consumption of the people.