Meat Inspection Act of 1906
· Meat that was traveling between states would be inspected by federal agents “from corral to can.”
· Passed after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was published.
· In response to The Jungle Roosevelt sends a commission to inspect Chicago’s meat packing factories, and what was found was so disgusting that the act was a shoe-in.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
· This was the Meat Inspection Act’s younger best friend.
· “Designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.”
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no one who has ever seen the image of meat shoes will forget it, or the meat inspection act of 1906
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