Analysis Of The Appreciative Work Of Upton Sinclair

The Appreciative Work of Upton Sinclair According to the Lewis Carroll Wade essay, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, helped “shaped the American political history”(Lewis Carroll Wade) because it raised awareness about the dangers in the meatpacking industries. Sinclair’s novel, made a powerful effect on Americans and the federal policies because of the hazardous conditions of food industries. After The Jungle was published people started to become aware of the dangers in their foods. The issue struck President Theodore Roosevelt and he sent two investigators to Chicago to investigate the meat industries. This eventually led to the Meat Inspection Act and, The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The Jungle, did a tremendous work towards acknowledging Americans of the conditions in food industries because it was clearly dangerous for food companies to sell unsanitary food.

Sinclair wrote the novel to expose the meat packaging industries and let people know about the hazardous conditions in the meat industries and poor immigrants workers. Sinclair’s description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. All these problems that were portrayed in The Jungle, caused the book to be bestselling which eventually came to President Theodore Roosevelt's attention. President Roosevelt took quick action and investigated the meat industries in Chicago. Then he soon signed the Meat Inspection Act and gave major credit to Beveridge but no credit to Sinclair’s novel. Though SInclair's novel was not given credit to by the President, it created a major impact in American history. If Sinclair never wrote the book or published it many Americans would not know about the unsafe foods they were eating and the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drugs Act might not be