The Meat Inspection Act

After the Meat Inspection Act meat was packaged healthier and people would now feel safer about the meat they were eating. (http://images.wisegeek.com/meat-being-packaged-at-a-processing-plant.jpg)

Before the Meat Inspection Act people were receiving unhealthy meat packages. (https://www.msu.edu/~elenbaa6/webquest/images/meat%20industry2.jpg)

 

Acrostic Poem:

Meat 

Effectiveness 

Act

Thoughts

Inspection

Negative

Sickening

Packers

Effect

Compromise

Transition

Infections

Opportunity

New

 

Action

Change

Turn

 

The book, The Jungle affected Americans thoughts on the way meat was produced because it revealed the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry. The way meat was packed was full of germs and it was unhealthy for people to eat. The Meat Inspection Act provided cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created the program of federal meat inspection. The Meat Inspection Act was a positive change for the people because it ensured that the meat they were eating were killed, cut, and packed in a sanitize condition.

Upton Sinclair was a progressive because he was a person spreading new ideas that are beneficial to society. If Upton Sinclair did not write the book, The Jungle the world would have never been exposed to all the unhealthy ways the meat they were eating were packaged. Upton Sinclair wanted a change for the better, with the Meat Inspection Act people would now not have to worry about the way there meat was packed because there would be an inspection to ensure the healthy conditions of there meat packaging.