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The meatpacking industry in the 1900's was very dangerous and very unsanitary. No one thought of washing their hands, or their themselves for that matter. People lacking good personal hygiene may have dropped sweat, hair, and other things contaminating the meat.
The employers didn't care at all for their workers, making them work long hours and making children as early as age 3 work long hours lasting around 12-15 hours. As always, lowley rodents such as rats love unsanitary places as well as deadly bacteria. In meatpacking factories, rats were always a problem, so they were chopped with the meat.
The machinery was also an issue in the meatpacking industry. They made little children go in the machines to get something, risking their lives. People's fingers also were often hacked off my the machinery and just ground into the rest of the meat. Along with the hygien, no one was required to wear clean cloths, wash hands or clean their feet to keep dirt and possibly foot fungus out of the meat. Also if the meat didn't look fresh they would simply put red dye on the meat and ship it off.
The reason we have regulated laws such as factory sanitation and shorter work hours, including child labor laws was a socialist muckracker named Upton Sinclare. His novel that won the Politzer Prize in 1906, entitled "The Jungle" covered the facts of the meatpacking industry of the time. Only 18-20 pages were used to describe the conditions in the factories. This book led to the 'Meat Inspection Act' and the 'Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906', which eventualy led to the 'Food and Drug Administration' (FDA).
President Theodore Roosevelt read this book and was disgusted with what he read, so he passed these acts to end unsanitary meat factories. Today, we have constant meat inspections to insure our meat is not as it was 100 years ago., thanks to Teddy Roosevelt and author Upton Sinclare.
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by showing that the meat packing industry did not have high standards of safety and cleanliness
How did the the jungle show that the meat packing industry needed to be regulated?
by showing that the meat packing industry did not have high standards of safety and cleanliness
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