make surprise inspections in meat packing facilities. They reported that there were horrible conditions and the workers were ignorant. The meat would be shoveled on the filthy wooden floors and piled on tables that were not clean‚ but the meat was still distributed throughout.(Doc B) This led to the Meat Inspection Act which got rid of the gruesome working habits and protected the nation’s food supply. The Pure Food and Drug Act was also passed and provided inspection in meat industries an
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talked about Armour & Co. The company in which employees would handle the meat in unsanitary conditions. Roosevelt then took action and passed the Meat Inspection Act in 1906.(John D Moore) The Act‚ included inspection requirements‚ including seeing animals before slaughter‚ separating diseased animals from healthy ones‚ and sanitary inspections.Roosevelt also signed the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ putting a similar inspection and safety requirements on other foods and
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Progressive Era The progressive leaders led the reform process of the nation’s industrial economy in the early years of the 20th century. Through the antirust acts‚ inspection acts‚ and regulations on trading‚ progressive reformers reshaped the way the economy ran. In a political cartoon by the Washington Post in 1907‚ President Roosevelt is on a dead raccoon with the words “bad trust” shaved into it. The political cartoon does over exaggerate the effectiveness of Roosevelt’s policies regarding
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muckrakers of the Progressive Era was Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair‚ in 1906‚ wrote a novel called the Jungle. The Jungle depicted the meat industry selling rancid meats and unhygienic slaughterhouses‚ therefore exposing the meat industry. Upton Sinclair’s the Jungle brought about public outrage leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ in addition to the Meat Inspection Act. However‚ after the Jungle was published‚ it became difficult to verify the authenticity of Sinclair’s statements. In March 1906
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jungle” by Upton Sinclair that Roosevelt saw the horrible health conditions that were going on. Meat industries would handle their meat in the most unsanitary way. They wouldn’t wash their hands; the meat would be at room tempter etc. Roosevelt pushed to pass the meat inspection act‚ which was passed to “force meat makers to use strict sanitation guidelines and created the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until the 1990’s.”1 The Pure food and drug act was also passed during Roosevelt
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Introduction A. Attention Getter: Youtube Video; Cysticercosis. B. Establish Significance: According to a USDA report titled factors affecting U.S. pork consumption by Christopher Davis and Biing-Hwan Linn‚ pork ranks first in per capita meat consumption in the world and third in the United States. Higher income consumers tend to consume less pork. Usda. Health and science editor Maggie wrote in worms infect more poor Americans than thought in dec 25th of 2007 C. Relate to the Audience:
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by bringing to social injustices. One of them was Upton Sinclair who noticed the way meat was being carelessly handled. He had shocked the nation they discovered the gruesome reality of the meat packing industry in Chicago when he published his novel “The Jungle”. As a result‚ disgusted by what he read‚ Roosevelt passed the Meat Inspection Act which required meat packing business to have federal meat inspections and be highly sanitary. Another precaution was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 forbade
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while still using imports from other countries. The USDA‚ United States Department of Agriculture‚ provides us with many guidelines on the importing process. When importing meat‚ poultry and eggs there are five basic steps to follow: it must originate from certified countries‚ the APHIS‚ the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services‚ must be contacted‚ countries and establishment become eligible by a ‘equivalence determination process’‚ goods have to reach the labeling
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“… the amount of suffering that the [horse slaughter ban] created exceded the amount of suffering it was designed to stop‚” said Ingrid Newkirk‚ founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) (Jonsson). In 2007‚ a ban on the inspection of horse meat was placed on the United States‚ but in November 2011‚ President Barack Obama lifted this ban with much negative feedback. Some people believe that horse slaughter is the killing of domestic animals‚ such as the household cats or dogs‚ and
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Friday Oct 18th 8:00 AM DUE Youngmin Son How did the Progressive movement successfully improve the lives of the average American between 1890 and 1920? Between 1890 and 1920‚ the progressive movement successfully improved the lives of the average American. The purpose of the progressive was to bring reforms that would correct problems that industrialization and urbanization had created troubling social and political problems. Some problems included women’s right to vote‚ child
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