How "The Jungle" Changed American Food | The Poison Squad | American Experience | PBS

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Does anyone out there feel that we should really be doing this?..... We are Damned!.... Our souls are Damned!.... By our own actions!....

Boars head should be required to read this book.

This is what happens when you put profit above everything else. 😮‍💨

Mary Had a Little Lamb her daddy shot it dead. now it goes to school with her between two hunks of bread

I read this book and Silent Spring early in my life and it helped guide me through the food maize and today there are many things I will not eat from the store.

GREAT GOD ALMIGHTY!😮

Years ago saw Eric Schlosser sitting with friends in a Chinese restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The restaurant is Tommys Wok.

White men, come on😡🤬😡🤬😡!!! At lease the black criminal hunt fresh food

The truth is what muckraking journalists strive for. I agree with Upton Sinclair about the working conditions even today. Still goes on.

Thank goodness that workers now are paid a fair wage and have breaks and don't have to break their backs and everything is sanitary😂😂😂😂😂😂

America 🇺🇸 has come a long, long way from selling disgusting food 🍱 and we still have a long way to go cheaters everywhere nasty 🤮 food poisoned food 🍱 just disgusting 🤮 and the FDA seems to be lazy or stupid in protecting the American people.

But unregulated laissez faire capitalism is the answer to everything, right?

I like CWD positive meat.

I'm scared of jungles

Is this book banned

It was required reading in high school. For a book I read once, 40 years ago, I still remember huge chunks of it. Jurgis Rudkis was his name, if I remember correctly.

How hard is it to stay clean?

I read ‘The Jungle’ when I was in my teens-50 years ago, it was a heartbreaking tale of the poor immigrants who helped build this country. It shaped my views on labor and management. I am pro labor, understand management and am not a bleatin’ ‘eart liberal.

🙊 Sadly, not much has changed! Go Veg, it's kinder for the Earth, Humans, and Animals 🌱

My great great grandfather worked in a meat processing plant in Chicago around this time, my mom recalled a story he said about his first day on the job when he threw unborn pig fetuses into the bin for dog food only to have his manager stop him and instruct him to put them in the bin for bologna. He never ate bologna again

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Poor Jurgis he depressed the hell out of me in high school.

Nightmare fuel

This was required reading for social studies and English class where I attended high school in the 1960s.

From a time when journalists actually practiced journalism and didn't report to the democratic party.

Sven and his horrid living and working conditions didn't register until they found him in their tinned meat.

Some of the best hard cured meats are covered in mold. The industry today is undeniably cleaner.

Many places in America still don't take the time to clean.

Show me the money!

And all the blood, left over guys and animal pieces we're just washed in the closet river to float away

I read this years ago...I think it is one of the most important books ever published in the U.S.

Today's GOP would call it free enterprise.

Thank goodness we've put such horrors in the past... now people are poisoned in ways that the eye and nose cannot identify, like GMO's and chemical additives, all sanctioned by the corporate captured government agencies that claim to care about our safety.

one grandpa was lucky enough to get a package of meat containing jimmy hoffa's liver and kidneys he sensed it was not from any cow and sent it in to the feds and they sent it to a lab for analysis and dna results . now they know that the meatpacking gliterati was in on his disappearance

I mean, a rat or two or a thousand. They are made of meat too right? People eat opposum and raccoon why not rat?

Too brief to be substantial.

When journalists report stuff like this now, the public gets mad at the undercover journalist because they feel attacked for liking the food.

Capitalism!

"Mary had a little lamb, and when she saw it sicken, she shipped it off to Packing town, and now it's labeled chicken"

For whatever reason this was written about.
It needed to be brought to light. After all this is going into people's mouth.

Yeah, let's all go back to an America when it was 'Great' before them liberals with their book-learnin and food safety job killin' regulations.....a few meat-packing workers rendered into "Durham's Pure Leaf Lard" never hurt nobody.

American good old times.

The Jungle is such a great book. Even today.

I never could bring myself to read this book. Let’s all be vegetarians!

Nevet mind the FACT that the book was much later refuted, & revealed to have been a complete, unequivocal HOAX! A TOTAL FABRICATION rooted in lies, & driven by a personal agenda of Upton Sinclair - a lying, desperate piece of garbage!

'Folks who believe in the rule of law and who like sausages should never watch either being made'..

The Jungle inspired me to produce “Exposé: Gods In The Machine, an exposé on the multi-billion dollar boondoggle known as the NYC Department of Homeless Services Shelter System. 1,055 days in 6 shelters.

This is one of the greatest illustrations of why a free press is so important. The press forced government to do it's job, and held scumbag capitalists accountable. The very wealthy have an agenda. And they used Leonard Leo to orchestrate a takeover of the Supreme Court. Thanks to Citizens United, the very wealthy are now free to openly buy legislators and judges. And guess what, they are also buying and eviscerating/killing the free press. We are circling back to this same era.

Damn liberals, good old days before government was on the backs of business.