What has Changed since Upton Sinclair? A contemporary view of food safetyBill Marler
What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, and animal rights action, we still have millions of pounds of beef recalled every year due to contamination with deadly pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 and its toxic cousins. Hundreds are sickened, many are permanently injured, and there are still deaths. Why can’t we get it right?
Food safety attorney Bill Marler will address the many challenges facing the meat industry and the consumers who eat their product. Climate, industry pressures and protocols, regulatory successes and failures, and consumer behavior all play a part. In addition to the discouraging list of what isn’t working in the system, he will present a list of proactive steps that can be taken to improve the safety of the American meat supply.
This quiz was conducted at IIT BHU Varanasi on 7th February 2015 as a part of the Quizzing Championship for the session 2014-15. This is a 18+ quiz and contains adult content.
What has Changed since Upton Sinclair? A contemporary view of food safetyBill Marler
What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, and animal rights action, we still have millions of pounds of beef recalled every year due to contamination with deadly pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 and its toxic cousins. Hundreds are sickened, many are permanently injured, and there are still deaths. Why can’t we get it right?
Food safety attorney Bill Marler will address the many challenges facing the meat industry and the consumers who eat their product. Climate, industry pressures and protocols, regulatory successes and failures, and consumer behavior all play a part. In addition to the discouraging list of what isn’t working in the system, he will present a list of proactive steps that can be taken to improve the safety of the American meat supply.
This quiz was conducted at IIT BHU Varanasi on 7th February 2015 as a part of the Quizzing Championship for the session 2014-15. This is a 18+ quiz and contains adult content.
2. Objectives
• How did Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel, The
Jungle, lead to reforms in the meat packing
industry?
Terms & Names:
• Upton Sinclair
• The Jungle
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food & Drug Act
3. Bellwork:
• What did you have to
eat in the past 24
hours? (Breakfast,
lunch, dinner, snack?)
• How was the food
prepared?
• Where did the food
come from?
4.
5.
6.
7. Upton Sinclair’s
shocking portrayal
of Chicago
slaughterhouses in
his novel The
Jungle raised
public awareness
& prompted
Congress to pass
the Meat
Inspection Act &
Pure Food & Drug
Act
8. Chicago Stockyard
“The pigs climbed a long series of stairways outside the building,
to the top of its 5 or 6 stories. Here was the cute, with its river of
hogs, all patiently toiling upward; & then through a passageway
they went into a room from which there was no returning for
hogs.”
9. “It was a long room with
an iron wheel, with rings
along its edge. They had
chains to which they
fastened about the leg of
the nearest hog, and the
other end of the chain
they hooked into one of
the rings on the wheel.
So, as the wheel turned,
a hog was suddenly
jerked off his feet and
borne aloft. At the same
instant the ear was
assailed by the most
terrifying shriek.”
10. “The hogs vanished with a splash into a huge vat of boiling
water. The carcass was scooped out of the vat by machinery
and fell through the floor, passing on on the way through
numerous scrapers to remove the bristles.”
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13.
14. “Passing through two lines of men, who sat upon a raised
platform, each doing a certain thing to the carcass as it came to
him. One scraped the outside of a leg; another scraped an inside
of the same leg.”
15. “One with a swift
stroke cut the throat;
another with two swift
strokes severed the
head, which fell to the
floor and vanished
through a hole.
Another made a slit
down the body; a
second opened the
body wider; a third
with a saw cut the
breastbone; a fourth
loosened the entrails,
a fifth pulled them out-
and they also slid
through a hole in the
floor.”
16.
17. “There were men
to scrape each
side and men to
scrape the back;
there were men
to clean the
carcass inside, to
trim it and wash
it.”
18. “There was never
the least attention
paid to what was
cut up for sausage;
there would come
all the way back
from Europe old
sausage that had
been rejected, and
that was moldy and
white-it would be
dosed with borax
and dumped into
the hoppers, and
made over again
for home
consumption.”
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20. The Jungle Video Clip
http://www.schooltube.com/video/31d956fd9ef6737cd887
What part of the pig is used for ham? What part of the pig is used for bacon? What part of the pig is used for sausage? How is sausage made?
What is this an image of? Stockyard Where do the cattle go from here?
What do you see in this image? Where do the pigs go from here? What happens to them?
How are the pigs killed? Where do pigs live? What is it like inside a pig pen? How do they remove the dirt, mud, and fecal mattter?
What are pigs skins covered with? How are they removed?
What are the men doing in this picture? Removing cattle hides
Have any of you been hunting? What happens after you kill your prey? (bleed it, skin it, remove the organs, & cut it into filets) Is it time consuming? Which is more efficient way of slaughtering animals hunting or slaughterhouse? What is the relationship between efficiency and cost?
Sausage is made out of the odds and ends of a pig and squeezed into pig intestines which are used as sausage casings.
