Who Is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

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The journalist Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” to portray the circumstances and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States. His main goal in revealing the meat industry and working situations was to advance socialism in the U.S. The readers were concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms with the Meat Inspection Act. The elements are analogized with rooted corruption of people in the power and Sinclair was considered a muckraker who exposed corruption in the government and business. He spent weeks gathering information whole working in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the …show more content…

Roosevelt supported Sinclair portrayed novel except the claim of the workers falling into rendering vats. Bureau of animal industry issued a report rejecting Sinclair’s most severe allegations saying Is a misleading false. The public made pressure to passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act which, the latter established the Bureau of chemistry. The results of the law was federal food, drug and cosmetic act required companies perform safety test on their drug submit data to FDA before being allowed to market product. The muckrakers investigated social, political and economic corruption and problems through their publications which, brought issues to the publics attention so that action could be taken to reform the problem. The jungle has served as a catalyst for the enactment of tougher federal laws, his purpose was to clear the truth about the ways of the city’s establishment and deliver justice for workingman. Sinclair wrote a story of a family the family to reveal evidence of the improprieties committed by the meat Packing Industry. The corruption now days I believe is more strict since the act of the Meat Inspection set a strict cleaning requirements for the meatpackers and other

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