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12 years ago
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Watch to find out more about a novel that was written with one goal in mind, but actually accomplished more than Sinclair originally planned. Safety and sanitary conditions in the meat industry have their origins here. Your reactions?
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I've read the book Cew on This whcih mentioned The Jungle in it. The condintions were horrible. IT is utterly revolting. Mut thanks to Roosevelt working conditions were approved and being a meatpacker became a good middle class job. -RHam3
I read a book similiar to The Jungle. It is called Chew On This. After I read the book I didn't eat fat food or months!
LB2
Is it possible that the meat-packing industry (and much that the FDA does) could be used as evidence of important work that the government does? Could it also be construed as work that the private firms, left to their own devices, might not do?
Hello Mr. Brown's history class and thank you for a very interesting look at events around the world. I attend the University of South Alabama and am a proud member of Dr. Strange's Education Media class. I have taken my share of history lesson, both in Britain and the United States, and would love to have been part of a class that could take me out of my environment. In five minutes I was able to catch a feel of real life and what it was like for people living at this time in the United States. This year in the United States we had an outbreak that was originally thought to be from Tomatoes and Jalepenos.
The amazing thing is that the government agency inspectors are able to trace the impure products back to the location that produced the contamination. It is amazing to think that the industrial revolution helped cause the conditions highlighted by Upton Sinclair, and that a century later technology has come so far that it can isolate the specific factory that a contaminated vegetable or fruit came from.
I love the posters of the era also. My friend is a graphic artist and works on labels for companies like General Motors and bands like Radiohead. It is an unbelievable way of looking at todays culture and what is important to the people. A picture does say a thousand words. The five minute video of life in a factory in 1906 told me clearly what it would take most people a 100 pages to tell. Great job and highly entertaining.
Thank you
Jim Fawcett
http://fawcettjedm310fall2009.blogspot.com/
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