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Caption: The Meat Inspection Act
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Caption: The 1906 Federal Meat Inspection Act
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th American President who served in office from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. One of the important elements of his presidency was the Meat Inspection Act policy.
The Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect, and condemn, any meat product found unfit for human consumption and was designed to work in combination with the Pure Food and Drug Act.
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Caption: What’s the purpose of the Meat Inspection Act?
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Caption: The purpose of the Meat Inspection Act was to:
- Established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants
- Authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct the ongoing monitoring and inspection of slaughter and processing operations
- The Mandatory inspection of livestock before slaughter (cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules, and swine)
- The Mandatory postmortem inspection of every carcass after slaughter
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Caption: The Meat Inspection Act was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, the same day as the Pure Food and Drug Act (PFDA) and the two laws worked in combination with each other. They were the first federal laws to regulate foods and drugs in America and a direct result of the unsanitary methods used by the food industry that were revealed in 'The Jungle' written by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair. The Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Act were important elements of Roosevelt's Square Deam Domestic Policy and key pieces of legislation during the history of Progressive Era.
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Caption: The 1906 Meat Inspection Act and the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act were both widely accredited to the revelations made in a book called 'The Jungle' written by the Progressive author Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair exposed the unhygienic and unsanitary methods used by the food industry that resulted in a scandal about the quality and purity of food sold to the U.S. public. 'The Jungle' became an international best seller, exposing Chicago's meatpacking industry, recounting shocking tales of diseased meat, of dead rats and the poison that killed them being thrown into the processing vats to be made into sausages.
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Caption: Upton Sinclair’s book
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Caption: What are the effects of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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Caption: The Effects of the Pure Food and Drug Act:
- Assured the American people that the federal government were taking significant steps to pass laws to improve the general health and welfare of the public and stop the unsafe and unhygienic practices of the Meat Processing companies
- It gave credibility to the Square Deal domestic policy of President Theodore Roosevelt
- It gave credence to the effectiveness of the 'Muckrakers' investigative journalism and their books that tackled social issues and the importance of the Progressive authors
- The largest meat processors and packers resisted certain features of the act, but they accepted it as a means to drive out smaller businesses
Caption: REFERENCES :
m.american-historama.org/1881-1913-maturation-era/meat-inspection-act.htm
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Meat-Inspection-Act
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Caption: Adella Vernanda Putri (B0316001)
Francisca Putri Yulinda (B0316016)
