Fallacious Information Represented In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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Fallacious Information Represented in The Jungle The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was a disputatious book when it was first published. Although it opened many peoples’ minds and gave them different perspectives on the topics within the novel, it should not be taught in schools. This book includes false documented information about the meat packing industry and immigrants workers which most people happened to believe. What Sinclair states in the book misleads people into thinking that all of the packers, packinghouse products, the workers, and their working areas are unsanitary and contaminated. There were several investigations conducted to prove this theory wrong. When President Roosevelt hired investigators from the Department of Agriculture to investigate some of …show more content…

The cattle-killing area had “good light and ventilation,” tiled side walls, but dirty overhead beams. The beef-canning section was “well whitewashed, lighted, and ventilated, and was clean,” although the cooking room had dirty meat receptacles and no fans to carry off the steam. (Lewis Carroll Wade essay 7) If this book is taught in schools it will give students false information and viewpoints of what really went on in the industries back in the 1900’s. Also, this information is outdated and it does not accurately portray how everything is currently processed which can cause them to stop eating certain foods. Sinclair also wanted his readers to believe that immigrant workers were not paid equally and that Americans were paid more no matter how good their skills were. John R. Commons studied the packinghouse workers in Chicago and he became aware that there were jobs that paid 15 cents an hour for new unskilled workers, and jobs that paid 50 cents an hour for high skilled workers. This is what Commons found after his

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