Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. It didn't help that manufacturers had a significant influence on Congress through aggressive lobbying. This is an absolute fact.”In a sorry attempt to save face, the statement from the Chicago meat-packing industry goes on to quote the Neill-Reynolds report and actually try and defend the sorry conditions that it exposes.The packinghouses failed to convince the public of their innocence however, because subsequently the President pushed the Meat Inspection Act and The Pure Food and Drug Act (which established the FDA) through the legislature and were signed just twenty-one days later on June thirtieth.
(Meat, poultry and eggs fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, while tap water falls under the purview of the EPA. The Jungle, 220. Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. This video displays how the main focus of the Prior to the publication of The Jungle, the FDA was not yet concerned with the foods and drugs that consumers would be in direct contact with, but with aspects of agriculture. One passage from the novel puts it this way, “The great corporation which employed you o the whole country—from the top to the bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”President Roosevelt addresses this issue as well in his statement made in the aforementioned New York Times article:“The insanitary conditions in which the laborers work and the feverish pace which they are forced to maintain inevitably affect their health…even the ordinary decencies of life are completely ignored [restrooms]…The whole situation as we saw it in these huge establishments tends necessarily and inevitably to the moral degradation of thousands of workers, who are forced to spend their working hours under conditions that are entirely unnecessary and unpardonable, and which are a constant menace not only to their own health, but to the health of those who use the food products prepared by them.”Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. While there are many factors that contributed to this, The Jungle helped an unaware audience recognize that there needed to be change.
Under existing law the National Government has no power to enforce inspection of the many forms of prepared meat food products that are daily going from the packing houses into inter-State commerce.
d and packed lay on the floor with rat dung, poison, urine, and all other unmentionable things—the President pushed two major pieces of legislation through Congress in 1906. One of its most famous accomplishments was its When thalidomide’s manufacturers sought approval from the FDA to sell the drug in the U.S. in 1960, FDA inspector Frances Kelsey put the brakes on the process by requesting the company conduct more safety studies. One passage from the novel puts it this way, “The great corporation which employed you o the whole country—from the top to the bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”President Roosevelt addresses this issue as well in his statement made in the aforementioned New York Times article:“The insanitary conditions in which the laborers work and the feverish pace which they are forced to maintain inevitably affect their health…even the ordinary decencies of life are completely ignored [restrooms]…The whole situation as we saw it in these huge establishments tends necessarily and inevitably to the moral degradation of thousands of workers, who are forced to spend their working hours under conditions that are entirely unnecessary and unpardonable, and which are a constant menace not only to their own health, but to the health of those who use the food products prepared by them.”Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. "The Jungle: Exposing the Wild Side of American Industry The primary political impact that The Jungle had was in regards to the way that food was handled and even viewed in the United States. Now he was going to be free, to tear off his shackles, to rise up and fight. Trump is urging Americans to donate their blood as he announced that the FDA has given an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to be used as a treatment for coronavirus. The original novel sparked the creation of the FDA.