The Meat of the Matter: A Look at the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 The year 1906 brought about a new era in governmental legislation that helped to shape the way privately owned producers of consumable goods would conduct themselves in the future. President Theodore Roosevelt‚ a man known for his tenaciousness when tackling the issues of the people‚ pursued these legislative changes‚ refusing to back down to the lobbyists who stood in his way. One such industry brought to its knees was the meat
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The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) was a United States Congress Act that worked to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to imported meat products‚ which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards. USDA inspection of poultry was added by the Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957. The Food and Drug Administration
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do people think its ok to kill and hurt and steal.?Why is it so hard to breath why the air so thick?.In the progressive era people tried to change abuses that were happening to consumer protection‚working condition‚City and environment. The Meat Inspection Act helped the consumer.the child labor law helped kids stop working at young ages.the city manager plan helped the city and environment .This is about all the laws and how they got passed and who ran some of them .Consumer protection started
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products being transported are healthy. Two of those acts are The Meat Inspection Act and The Food Protection Plan of 2007. The Meat Inspection Act began the federal regulation of the poultry‚ meat‚ and egg products. A man by the name of Upton Sinclairs wrote a novel in 1906 called “The Jungle‚ which was filled with details on the unsanitary methods of Chicago’s meat-packing industry. Within months‚ the public began to demand a serious change in the meat industry. President Roosevelt sent in Labor Commissioner
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Progressive Era Questions 1. The progressive movement is considered by some the origin of which social/political ideology? Liberalism 2. Progressives believed that government should protect the people and promote the social welfare of people through which means? Legislation 3. It was an important social issue concerning equality that the Progressives advocated? Women’s Suffrage 4. List five issues that defined the Progressive Movement: a.
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2/24/13 P.6 U.S Government The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 The Federal meat inspection act of 1906 was created because of the unhealthy production of meat that was taking place in that time. During this era people became ill because of the poor manufacturing of dead animals meat. The unhealthy production is the reason President Theodore Roosevelt brought forth the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906‚ (http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/fed-meat-act.html). According to (http://www
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Progressivism and its Effects Progressivism was a period of American history in which improving working conditions‚ improving the way of life‚ exposing corruption‚ expanding democracy and making reforms was the main idea of this period. Many of the citizens granted and demanded a change in numerous areas such as business‚ labor‚ economy‚ consumers and an increase of democracy. The progressive period was marked with the arrival of three great presidents Roosevelt‚ Taft‚ and
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expose issues that would not necessarily be addressed else where. One example of an issue that Muckraking exposed and investigated is issues in the meat packing industry and the way our food and drugs were processed. In response to this‚ Congress was persuaded to pass reforms such as the Pure Food and Drugs Act (1906) and the Meat Inspection Act (1906) due to the important findings brought up in this investigative journalism. Some documents included in this book show how this new style of journalism
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Gracia History 1302 Professor Villarreal June 28‚ 2011 Meat Inspection “Meat Inspection‚” by Gabriel Kolko‚ is a short story concerning the nature and processes of the meat packing industry and the laws that emerged to maintain the safety of their facilities and the products before human consumption during the Progressive Era. In the early twentieth century‚ the publishing of a novel by Upton Sinclair containing the truth behind meat packing corporations changed American food industries to this
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Events Pure Food and Drug Act (1906): An act which prevents the production and sale of food‚ drugs‚ alcohol‚ or medicines which are considered poisonous or misbranded. this act was passed in 1906 and was purposed for protecting the public from any consumerism based harm. It was also made in response to various cases where consumers were caused medical harm by the ill preparation of food or falsified medicine. Upton Sinclair (See: Upton Sinclair) brought light to a plethora of problems that occurred
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