Jungle investigation/interpretation
1. To survive and succeed in packing town you must aquire the art of desception. All the business wanted was to keep their secrets and to outperform each other. You had to be a hard fast worker to survive the company but to rise through its ranks you must spy and betray the man above you.
2. As a plant owner all you could ever want is to have work done aas quickly as possible. Many men would work themselves so hard right out of the job where a new man would take his place. The owner did not care how things were done as long as it was inexpensive and made him maximum profit.
3.A man was worth anything only the dollars he made was his worth. Money was worth more than human life thats all anyone cared about.
Research: Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906. After the publication of the jungle’s expose on the meat packing industry president theodore roosevelt launched an investigation of the meat packing industry. The results were shocking and revolted the investigators who saw the facility. Their reports ended in Roosevelt supporting the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). Now Plants are inspected regularly to ensure that meat is processed in a sanitary manner. There were four main points in the (FMIA)
Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906:
1. Mandatory inspection of animals before slaughter
2. Mandatory inspection of post mortem carcass
3. Sanitary standards established for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.
4. Authorized U.S. Department of Agriculture ongoing monitoring and inspection of slaughter and processing operations.
Sources:
PG. 336-339 The Jungle
