Meat And Canned Food Quality

Currently, meats and other foods have loose limitations on their quality. For example, a can of tomato soup can contain up to ten fly eggs in a normal sized glass cup. While this sounds horrid and abominable, current food policies have greatly increased in comparison to approximately a century or a little more ago. The inventions of different machinery that “cleanses” the meat, the changes of various slaughterhouses that have impacted the modern foods and other similar products as well as the usage of new chemicals to prevent growth and reproduction of harmful bacteria are few examples of recent advances. Improvements of meat and canned food quality have impacted the overall health of people and animals in both good and bad ways.

Starting in the eastern part of the United States, meat packaging first became popular after the invention of railroads that spread across the country. The selected meats were kept in cool refrigerated areas of factories, a process which began in the late seventeenth century. Previously, meats were kept on ice which was gathered from nearby lakes during the winter which preserved the meat until summertime. As a result of the heavy weight of the meat chunks, the Smokehouse Tree was invented in 1899, which allowed easier and quicker transportation of the unfinished product from point A to B (Red Meat Industry). Many of the slaughterhouses were not disease-free, in any shape or form. Pieces of unused or unprocessed meat remained in the corners of the buildings, causing the areas to be extremely infectious. A mere cut on the index finger could result in urgent medical care or being amputated. Influenced by Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, which described the gruesome conditions of the meat factories and t...

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...eloped, for both religious and everyday foods. The evolution of the meat industry evolved around The Jungle, which caused the introduction of The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, which, in turn, changed the meat industry for the better. New machines have increased the amount of processed meat, which calls for more cattle to be prepared for slaughter in the future. Animal testing has increased the medical field, which raises controversy by many in the public, and, as a resulted, caused the formation of many anti-testing organizations. Many have converted to vegetarianism and veganism to prevent consumption of meat, after finding out the truth of both slaughterhouses and chemicals that consumers are ingesting. Whether the evolution of meat processing has improved society at large and the human race overs, is up to the individual and their opinions.