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What was the Purpose of the Pure Food
and Drug Act?
What was the purpose of the Pure Food
and Drug Act
do? The purpose of the Meat Inspection Act was to:
● Established sanitary
standards for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants
● Authorized the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to conduct the ongoing monitoring and
inspection of slaughter and processing operations
● The Mandatory inspection
of livestock before slaughter (cattle, sheep, goats, horses,
mules, and swine)
● The Mandatory postmortem
inspection of every carcass after slaughter
Meat Inspection Act and the Food and
Drug Act for kids
The Meat Inspection
Act was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, the
same day as the
Pure Food and Drug Act (PFDA)
and the two laws worked in combination with each other. They were
the first federal laws to regulate foods and drugs in America and a
direct result of the unsanitary methods used by the food industry
that were revealed in 'The Jungle' written
by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair. The
Meat Inspection Act and the Food
and Drug Act were important elements of
Roosevelt's Square Deal
Domestic Policy and key pieces of legislation during the history of
Progressive Era.
1906 Meat Inspection Act History for
kids
The 1906 Meat Inspection Act and the 1906 Pure Food and
Drug Act were both widely accredited to the revelations made in a book called 'The
Jungle' written by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair.
Upton Sinclair exposed the unhygienic and
unsanitary methods used by the food industry that resulted in a scandal about the quality and purity of food sold to the U.S. public.
'The
Jungle' became an international best
seller, exposing Chicago's meatpacking industry, recounting shocking tales of diseased meat, of dead rats and the poison
that killed them being thrown into the processing vats to be made
into
sausages.
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act for kids: Theodore
Roosevelt
The public outcry that followed the publication of 'The Jungle' resulted in a government
investigation which immediately changed the food laws in America.
Upton Sinclair was condemned by the industry owners as one of the
Muckrakers
of the Progressive Era but President Theodore Roosevelt sent James
Bronson Reynolds (a social worker) and labor commissioner Charles P.
Neill to investigate Upton Sinclair's claims. Neill and Reynolds
made surprise visits to the meat packing warehouses and factories in
Chicago. President Roosevelt was appalled by the Neill-Reynolds
report - Upton Sinclair's ghastly revelations were all true.
Theodore Roosevelt immediately signed the Meat Inspection Act and
the Pure Food and Drug Act into law.
What were
the Effects of the
Meat Inspection Act?
Why
was the Meat Inspection Act important? The Effects of the Pure Food
and Drug Act:
● Assured
the American people that the federal government
were taking significant steps to pass laws to improve
the general health and welfare of the public and
stop the unsafe and unhygienic practices of the
Meat Processing companies
● It gave
credibility to the Square Deal domestic policy
of President Theodore Roosevelt
● It gave
credence to the effectiveness of the
'Muckrakers' investigative
journalism and their books that tackled social issues and
the importance of the Progressive authors
● The
largest meat processors and packers resisted
certain features of the act, but they accepted
it as a means to drive out smaller businesses
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Meat Inspection Act for kids - President Theodore Roosevelt Video
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