Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Is There a New Jungle?. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 4 page research paper that examines Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1904) which exposed the abuses in the meatpacking industry and provided the impetus for legislation to protect the American food supply. Then, the writer addresses the question as to whether or not any of these abuses still exist and comes to the conclusion that things are still far from perfect in the American meatpacking industry. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Page Count:
4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khnewj.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
businessmen and politicians who put money ahead of the welfare of the public and the people employed in the countrys meatpacking industry. The public outrage over Sinclairs expose of the
meatpacking industry resulted in the passage of several laws, most notably the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (Reed, 1995). Today, the assumption is that the awful conditions pictured by
Sinclair are a thing of the past. However, this assumption brings up the question as to how safe, precisely, is Americas food supply. First of all, there is little doubt
that the American food supply and the population are better off today as a result of Sinclairs The Jungle. The extreme conditions described by Sinclair are, thankfully, prohibited by
law. Sinclair asserts that: There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it and thousands of rats would race
about on it...a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of dried dung of rats (Sinclair, 1994). At the dawn of
the twentieth century, inspection of meats was limited only to interstate sale or export (Schaumburg, 2001). There were no US laws to regulate what manufacturers could and could not put
into food. Meat packers typically used borax and glycerin to hide the smell of spoiled beef and candy manufacturers mixed shredded bone into candy bars to make coconut go
father (Schaumburg, 2001). President Theodore Roosevelt was at first skeptical about Sinclairs allegations, so he sent labor commissioners to Chicago to verify the conditions depicted in The Jungle. Their
report stated that the conditions under which workers labored in the meatpacking industry were "unnecessary and unpardonable" (Schumburg, 2001, p. 18). Today, we assume that such conditions no longer exist,
...