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 Charles
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel set at the meatpacking plants and stockyards of Chicago‚ Illinois. Jurgis Rudkus and his family‚ immigrants from Lithuanian‚ decided to move to the United States to follow the “American Dream”. They settled in Chicago and started to work in Packing town. Unlike the working conditions of today‚ they encountered the worst working conditions possible‚ testing their family life and values‚ and how authority figures were there for
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BASIC MEAT PROCESSING PRINCIPLES OF MEAT PRESERVATION Meat preservation is principally concerned with the application of measures to delay meat spoilage‚ which are caused by microbial‚ chemical and physical changes. Of these‚ microbial spoilage is most common. Microbes thrive in moisture and since meat is 70%-75% water‚ it spoils easily through microbial action. Meat‚ being rich source of nutrients‚ also becomes an excellent food for bacteria. Methods of meat preservation‚ however different from
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Eating Meat and The Treatment of Animals Eating animals is part of the daily life of billions of people all over the world. Every day‚ thousands of animals are killed for the production of food for people. We have been brought up eating meat and never questioned it. It is culturally accepted even though modern livestock and poultry production (factory farming) is cruel and gives animals no other purpose for existence except for human consumption. There are particular religions which prohibit eating
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Make Environmental Footprints Smaller by Investing in “Meat without Feet” With recent news in medicine being that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards‚ some believe that in vitro fertilization and stem cell research is reserved to humans. According to The Official Web Site of The Nobel Prize‚ Robert G. Edwards won the award due to his creation and advancements with in vitro fertilization‚ which now allows infertile couples to be able to conceive. This
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to Consider in Starting a Meat Processing Project 1. Determination‚ enthusiasm and perseverance to start a business. 2. Market for the products. 3. Sourcing‚ for raw materials‚ ingredients and packaging. 4. Availability of simple equipment and utensils. 5. Capital to start the business. 6. Personnel to attend to the processing operations. 7. Allocate time for processing. 8. Identification of product lines. Important Utensils Used in Meat Processing Knives Weighing
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an effort to conserve our planet people drive hybrid cars‚ recycle‚ and use low energy light bulbs and appliances‚ which is great. However‚ most Americans are unaware and uninformed about how meat effects global warming‚ our health‚ and how much of our planet’s water and resources meat production consumes. Meat contributes to global warming‚ increases risk for cancer‚ causes heart disease and uses a tremendous amount of resources to produce‚ therefore people need to be informed about what they are
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The title of this book is called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. The length of this book is thirty-six chapters‚ the uncensored edition marking it three hundred and thirty-five pages long. Originally published on February 26‚1906‚ the uncensored issue was published in 2003 over eighty years later. This book was about a young man and women have migrated from Lithuania to Chicago in search for a better life. They soon learn that in Packingtown‚ the center of Lithuania has no jobs available and the conditions
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Meat packing plant are completely different than what Upton Sinclair described it in the novel. The meat packaging plants in the 21st century is must cleaner than novel interprets it because we have rules and regulations to protect people from getting sick. The meat packaging plant where dirty‚ putting things it the meat that were not food‚ and the plants were unsanitary. Let’s examine how they were. First‚ what is the good of laws without fair and equitable enforcement? This means why do they
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1) What factors affect the color of meat and poultry? There is a protein called myoglobin that is purple. When it comes into contact with oxygen‚ it changes to oxymyoglobin and the resulting color is a bright red. In addition‚ meat color is affected by age (of the animal)‚ the species‚ sex‚ diet‚ and the level of exercise it received. While safely storing meat in a fridge‚ it is normal to experience color changes. 2) Does a change in color indicate spoilage? A change of color does not necessarily
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