The Jungle in 2010

[Hannah Bell]

In 1906, socialist author Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a powerful exposé of the brutal conditions confronting immigrant workers in Chicago’s stockyards...The public outcry was such that President Theodore Roosevelt and Congress soon passed the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906...100 years later, those restrictions that were imposed on the food industry’s drive for profit have all but vanished. This week’s massive recalls of eggs and lunch meats have lifted the veil on the source of the US food supply in brutal and unsanitary sweatshops.

More than a half a billion eggs potentially poisoned with salmonella, likely due to contamination from rodent feces, have now been recalled from states across the US. The eggs were produced by two Iowa companies, Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms.

There have been 1,300 reported cases of salmonella poisoning—which leads to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and, in vulnerable populations, death. The actual number of cases may be higher by a factor of 40 due to under-reporting.

Then on Tuesday, 380,000 pounds of deli meats processed by the world’s largest meat producer, Tyson Foods, were recalled from Wal-Mart stores nationwide. The cold cuts were likely contaminated with listeria, a strain of bacteria that can lead to nausea, head and neck aches, and listeriosis, a potentially deadly condition.

The week’s outbreaks are not mere accidents. They result from the steady deregulation of US industry over the past three decades...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a26.shtml

[RandomThoughts]

1. See my point.

The article has W right, and Hill An Dale.

see what I mean, why would someone not just say what they mean if it meant anything.

[Hannah Bell]

2. yes, why wouldn't they just say what they meant so people could understand them.

[dkf]

3. Obama needs to attend to regulations ASAP.

We are turning into the Chinese.

[Javaman]

4. The erosion of the monopoly laws...

drip drip drip.

This is an example of that libertarian utopia where corporations would self regulate!

sigh.

[pnorman]

6. Monopoly laws (Sherman Anti-Trust legislati) were effectively nullified in the Reagan administratio,

In his 8 years in office, Clinton did little if anything to get them back on track. Obama is facing the fiercest and DIRTIEST opposition since the days of FDR! His PRIMARY goal is to come out of this upcoming mid-term elections as a viable President. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

[Javaman]

7. What?

what are you trying to imply?

Back off skippy. You went from zero to insane in no time flat.

[pnorman]

8. Sigh!

n/t

[Javaman]

9. ?? Are you unable to articulate your thoughts?

Come on, I won't bite...much.

If you make cloaked accusations, have the guts to own up to them.

Unreal.

[pnorman]

10. SIGH!!

n/t

[Javaman]

11. Rather than engage in a healthy discussion,

you choose the non-reply reply.

If you had owned up to your asinine statement, I would have been forgiving, but since you choose the particular tactic trying to come across as frustrated, it only highlights your ignorance or cowardice.

And to quote your own response, "Sigh".

However, I will refrain from the over cliched use of many exclamation points. Seeming how just the statement of "sigh", will suffice perfectly.

On edit: Love the use of the caps. That helps how?

[pnorman]

12. Oh, that REALLY hurt my delicate feelings!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

{Sigh!"

[Javaman]

13. Apparently I did, I got a reaction out of you.

You still haven't answered my first question.

What were you implying with your first reply?

[pnorman]

5. "The Jungle" on-line

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm