Purpose Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The Jungle is a book that was written by Upton Sinclair in 1906. Upton Sinclair was a muckraker which is a fancy word for journalist that they used back in 1900. The purpose of The Jungle was to show the conditions of where the workers lived, how they lived, and how little they worked in order to get paid almost nothing.

What this did to the workers is what would happen was they would put already processed meat from sick animals in the storage room once it was processed and leave it there to rot until it could be put into sausage skins. What would happen in these rooms were bugs and rats would get into the rooms and start eating the meat that was waiting to be put into sausage skins. So what the workers had to do this they had to put poisoned

that law was called the Pure Food and Drug Act. By the 1930s, muckrakers, consumer protection groups, and regulators through the government began fighting for stronger reinforcement from the government by publicizing a list of products that were breaking the 1906 law, including radioactive drinks, mascara which caused blindness, and fake cures for diabetes and tuberculosis. “The proposed law was not able to get through the Congress of the United States for five years, but was rapidly made into law after the outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug made with a toxic, unknown

There was many of opinions against, however, to call for a new law expanding the FDA's authority. This argument was changed by the thalidomide tragedy, in which thousands of babies were born with messed up heads or bodies after their mothers took thalidomide which was put on the market for treatment of nausea during pregnancies. Thalidomide had not been approved for use in the U.S. because of the concerns of an FDA reviewer, Frances Kelsey about thyroid toxicity. However, thousands of samples had been sent to American doctors during the investigation of the drug's development, which at the time was entirely unregulated by the FDA. Individual members of Congress cited the thalidomide incident in lending their support to expansion of FDA