Truth of Food



Truth of Food

            After dealing with strikes and railroads, Roosevelt is facing another problem. The people are dying of murders from gangs, jealousy, and revenge. But there is one murderer that he wasn’t aware of. Most of the people in America are dying of diseases, unknowing sickness of fevers and have strange conditions.

Roosevelt’s number one suspect. Food. After reading disturbing stories from muckraker articles and books from workers of the factories he finally understood what was really going on in America’s food. Upton’s Sinclair’s book “the Jungle” officially exploded Roosevelt’s mind.

            Soon after making up his mind, in 1906 he issued the Meat Inspection Pact. This dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpacker and created a federal meat inspection program. This program inspected the factories ever so often in order to keep the factories clean.

            Then his second problem came around. People were lying to the citizens or what they were calling “improving the truth” about their products being able to cure many things. They made things like medicines that help baldness and even cures to cancer. Almost immediately after hearing this, Roosevelt ordered the Pure Food and Drug Act. This halted the sale of contaminated food and medicines, and called for truth in labeling