Meat Inspection Act

Acrostic Poem

Meat
Exploit
Act
The Jungle

Industries
New
System
Packing
Environment
Clean
Theodore Roosevelt
Inspection
O-
Novel

A-
Chicago
T-

Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle" affected the way Americans thought about the ways meat that they eat were produced by exposing how the slaughterhouses and meat packing industries sell dirty meat. The meat were stored in piles in unrefridgerated rooms with rats racing about it. Before Sinclair wrote the book, the people did not know why they get sick, but now they demanded the government to inspect the meat being processed and packed in the slaughterhouses. Roosevelt responded to the people's demand and created the federal meat inspection which was the Meat Inspection Act.