Chapter nine commences by telling its readers about how Lee Harding was diagnosed with E coli 0157:H7. After eating some tacos at a Mexican restaurant, he started to have excruciating stomach pains and diarrhea. Harding’s stomach was hurting because of some frozen hamburgers he ate a couple of days ago. Those same hamburgers provided by Hudson Foods were infected with E. coli 0157:H7. Millions of those same frozen hamburgers had already been sold and most likely eaten. The middle of the chapter begins to go more in depth about the deadly germs living within the meat that most people consume on a daily basis. According to the book, foodborne illnesses are now more easily transmitted due to, feedlots, sanitation issues in slaughterhouses, and meat grinders. Although there is mass distribution of meat that may possibly be infected with dangerous bacteria, the government has no political influence on whether or not the meat will be recalled or not. Recalling meat is all up to the company and they most likely won’t recall their meat unless it is a very serious …show more content…
USDA has repeatedly purchased meat from companies that have been involved in major bacterial outbreaks. A handful of children have been sickened because of this. To make matters even worse, the USDA buys the cheapest meat it can get, leaving the meat highly susceptible to having harmful diseases and pieces of bones. Even fast-food restaurants have higher meat standards than the National School Lunch Program ((NSLP)USDA provides the meat for the NSLP). Lastly, chapter nine notifies people that kitchen sinks aren’t as clean as they may think. According to a study by the university of Arizona, a toilet seat is at times cleaner than a kitchen sink. It also educates its readers to beware of tampered food from fast-food restaurants, hence the stories told at the very end of the
It seems as if the motive to the industry has not changed since federal laws were passed in 1906; that is, they look for a quick processing line. The pressure to be quick has not stopped, causing many to become sick and injured. An article from Mint Press in 2014 stated “The U.S. Department of Agriculture that would raise top processing speeds by nearly 25 percent.” At the least, they are trying to attack the bacteria within the meat by zapping it with x-ray and gamma ray
Discussion #5: Foster Farms Chicken Salmonella Outbreak It is astonishing after reading the editorial about the Salmonella outbreak in 29 states and Puerto Rico, that it took 17 months and 634 people confirmed cases to ultimately affirm the outbreak over. What took the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) so long to get this foodborne illness outbreak under control? Perhaps, the CDC officials misguided the food and safety news when they told them that the number of case in the affected states were normal for that time of year. Then, to make matters worse, the governments test on Foster Farms chicken meat did not show evidence for the strains for several months. The CDC claimed that "It 's been a long, complicated investigation
President Theodore Roosevelt “signed into law a Meat Inspection Act that banned the packers from using any unhealthy dyes, chemical preservatives, or adulterants”(Document 4). This stresses the point that meat made in these factories were so revolting, it would be unjust for any American to consume it. No American should be tricked into eating filth like this meat, and President Roosevelt knew this. Without him, citizens would still have no knowledge of the meats they’re
Fortunately, this revolutionary novel was a catalyst to the creation of various laws and agencies established to protect the safety of American consumers. The book was an eye-opening slap in the face to consumers who, unknowingly, were constantly being put in danger by the food they ate every night. The Jungle also revealed the horrors of working in these unsanitary meat plants. Fortunately, The Jungle has caused food safety to become a much more relevant and serious topic today, keeping consumers and workers safe from the dangers experienced inside the meat-packing factories of the
Chapter 8 from the reading describes the working condition of the slaughterhouse. The meatpacking was known for the most dangerous job in America. People worked in the poor working condition where knives and machines can cut through their shiny steel armor. There are no windows, workers standing in the river of blood, drenched in blood, and women facing sexual harassment. The cleaning crew cleans the plant with a high-pressure hose that shoots a mixture of water and chlorine heated to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Instead, big companies are choosing to risk their client’s health by feeding animals what they are not supposed to eat and pumping them with e Coli and stuffing them in a tiny barn where they can’t flap a wing and are forced to stand in feces which may or may not be their own . In The Jungle, they described how they treated dead animal meat, now just imagine how they must have treated the alive animals. This next quote is describing how they kept the meat . “Every Spring they did it; and in the barrels there would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water- and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast” (Pg. 143, The Jungle)
Even though Roosevelt made changes, there is still a possibility that there are some of these problems in our food production today. In this chapter of “After the Fact”, the author uses the Meat Inspection Act, created by Theodore Roosevelt, to illustrate how all the different elements and issues form the important decisions made in our country.
for Disease Control & Prevention (2010) 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. " Numerous food regulations make the details complex, but the concepts are simple. Adulterated food is not fit for distribution or consumption because it includes an added substance, whether natural or man-made, or is missing something in a way that fails to comply with legal standards and consumer expectations and can cause serious illness. Not all food containing foreign substances or pathogens is adulterated--meaning suppliers may legally send food service providers such food even though it could prove harmful to
Intro: When people eat food they do not think about what is in it, or how it is made. The only thing people care about is what the food tastes like and how much they get. During the 1900’s the meat packing industry had not regulations of any kind. All that mattered to the industry was that they made as much money as possible with as little expenditure as possible. During this times people were often made sick and died either from working conditions or poor food quality.
All research and argumentative writers use the tenets of rhetoric to persuade their readers that their point of view is correct. Eric Schlosser uses ethos to convince readers that American fast-food made dramatic impacts on advertising. In “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, “Years ago sociologist Vance Packard described children as ‘surrogate salesmen’ who had to persuade other people, usually their parents, to buy what they wanted. Marketers now use different terms to explain the intended response to their ads — such as ‘leverage,’ ‘the nudge factor,’ ‘pester power.’ The aim of most children’s advertising is straightforward: get kids to nag their parents and nag them well.”
Before the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was passed many industries had bad working conditions . There would be dead rats found inside the food products even human body parts would be in the food. Even today people have to suffer physical labor because they don’t want to lose their jobs and be replaced by robotic machines . Many of them suffer back pain or pain in their hands because they have to pack meat 40 to 50 pieces of meat per minute. Back in the 1900’s they didn’t have robotic machines that could take over and do their jobs all day long.
Sinclair’s novel depicts several deaths, including that of Kristoforas, possibly the result of “tubular pork that was condemned as unfit for export” (The Jungle). The contaminated food came from the meat of the downers, or lame and sickly animals, and the unsanitary conditions in the packing plants. Food Inc. revealed that the industries today still use meat from downers. Yet, the source of more deaths today results from e-coli poisoning coming from cattle who are corn. Though e-coli contamination could be prevented by feeding cows grass, industries refrain to do so in order to save money.
Joshua 5: 13 "Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, "What message does my Lord have for his servant?" The man who says these words says that he is the ‘commander of the army of the Lord’. This is the first time that God has appeared to Joshua until now.
They had inspectors at the factories to check the animals and make sure they did not have an illness or disease, but most of the inspectors did not do their jobs right. Since the inspectors did not do their job right some of the animals, that went through the process of becoming packaged meat, had diseases or viruses that no one knew about. Eventually, this meat ended up in a grocery store where anyone could buy it. So, essentially someone would have been eating diseased meat that could have been also spoiled. This led to many illnesses for working men/women in general, because most of the “working class” could not afford more high class meat, so they dealt with the diseased and spoiled meat, which often led to the people getting
The meat packing industry disregards animal’s emotions and their rights all together by the malicious treatment of animals. The way animals are being treated is highly unfair. Being slaughtered for their body parts and suffering just to be used for protein or an asset to humans is unbearable. An animal’s life is at equal values to a human and deserve the same rights as