The Fear Of Pigs By Sarah And Son Stanley

After the 16-day lab, we have seen that many of the piglets decompose completely and some less than others. Our group believed

Sinclair’s intention to disclose the quandary of laborers at the meatpacking plants and his descriptiveness of the animal cruelty and unsanitary conditions of the plants caused a significant  public uproar and changed the way people shopped for food. Ultimately bringing about his quote, “I aimed at the public’s heart,and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

We haven’t always endured the dramatic effect of these ghastly creatures. Around three hundred years ago the Spaniards, during their explorations introduced the hogs to Texas. The hogs were intended for sustenance and lard for the new settlers here in America. During the fight for Texas’s independence the hogs were left unattended and managed to escape their encasements. That being said, the hogs began reproducing at an alarming rate; now the feral hog

It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of mean and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go in the hoppers together.”# There was nothing the packers would not do to make a profit, if meat went bad they would pickle it or make sausage out of it, “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 glycerin, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption.”# The Packers took no responsibilities for the sickness that these meats caused. It was not uncommon for people to die from sickness they had gotten from eating bad meat, this is also an issue in “The Jungle” when a young family member suddenly dies one morning, “it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that morning-which may have been made out of some of the tubercular pork that was condemned unfit for export.”# Disease was also a factor for the workers, as quoted from the book “Meat and Men “Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world.”# It was also not uncommon for people to fall into the vats and become lard. “The public revolted at the

Sinclair began by informing the public on the everyday making of meat products and the inhumane ingredients that went inside it. He also stated that inspectors at factories didn’t do thorough searches, and often just talked to the workers. The text states,”If you were a sociable person, he was quite willing to enter into conversation with you, and to explain to you the deadly nature of the ptomaines which are found in tubercular pork; and while he was talking with you you could hardly be so ungrateful as to notice that a dozen carcasses were passing him untouched…”(Sinclair Document A).This quote shows that inspections were never thorough enough to bring up dilemmas in the businesses. While meat inspectors talked to workers dead hogs would be carried by them, which weren’t checked for diseases. Once uncovering this, Sinclair knew there was a needed change in the inspections.

“The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy, which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water—and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped

The Chicago stockyards, where the immigrants live and work, are described as a vile and nauseating place. The ditches in the stockyards and in the town were filled with a stinking green liquid. “Swarms of flies” hung over the stockyards and “blackened the air” (Mookerjee 79). “The strange, fetid odor, of all the dead things of the universe” was rampant in the stockyards (Mookerjee 79). Sinclair then goes on to explain that it isn’t just the conditions of the stockyards and the atmosphere of where the workers live and conduct business he describes what ghastly objects went into the meat that serve the American public. Sinclair effectively displays the grotesqueness and barbaric sanitation conditions by commencing the novel by explaining about the “rotten hams and rat adulterated sausage” (Bloodworth 59). Old sausage that had been deemed not able to be processed that contained significant traces of borax and glycerine that had been thrown on the floor and dumped into several different hoppers would be reprocessed and served to the American public as if it were new, fresh meat (Bloodworth 59). The reprocessing and fraudulent claims that the meat was pure were grotesque lies made by the meatpacking companies. One of the most fundamental claims that Sinclair makes to demonstrate the horrid conditions is that occasionally some of the workers would fall into the cooking vats, “ and when they were fished out,

In an eye opening novel entitled The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author tells a story in which exposes the gut wrenching and shocking facts of what actually goes on in these food processing and meat packing factories in an urban Chicago during the early 1900s. Sinclair does a wonderful job at exposing what actually happened behind these factory doors and informs the reader of the unsanitary process in which animals were transformed into meat products. However when reading this novel one must take into consideration that Sinclair’s main concern was not only the disgusting products produced but the employees that produced them as

“All day long the rivers of hot blood poured forth, until, with the sun beating down, and the air motionless, the stench was enough to knock a man over; all the old smells of a generation would be drawn out by this heat – for there was never any washing of the walls and rafters and pillars, and they were caked with the filth of a lifetime.” (Sinclair 116). These extreme conditions were not only hard on the workers, but also acted as a mating ground for horrid bacteria to thrive. “There was not even a place where a man could wash his hands, and the men ate as much raw blood as food at dinner-time.” (Sinclair 116). The very workers who were butchering food could not wash their hands – a sure way for disease to be spread. There is also the factor that all workers literally could not afford to lose their job; they feared that the slightest infraction could result in their place being given away, and therefore, these men and women (and children) would show up to work no matter their condition. Combine this with the blind trust all Americans had in the “food regulation system”, and the result is an epidemic of

Harper Lee uses the novel To Kill a Mockingbird to describe how life was in the 1930s. Harper Lee uses her novel to explain about real life problems in the 1930s to explain the Scottsboro case by using the 6th amendment and the 8th amendment, the education of African Americans, and the stock market crash to relate to her novel. The life of African American who are being judge by all whites. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird some examples of racism are the Tom Robinson case and how the jury treated him unfairly because he was black and they were white and this relates to real life because of the Scottsboro case which happen to have two white women accuse nine African Americans to have raped them and they were judge

The novel ‘Animal Farm’ created by George Orwell heavily expresses the ideals of a prolonged cruel or unjust treatment and the exercise of authority. The exponential ignorance of the farm animals towards the actions and ideas of the pigs (Napoleon, Squealer and Snowball) prove the incentive that it is easier to conform to the ideals/ways of the ‘New England’, than to rebel, as well as through the exposure to propaganda and the distortion of reality. This therefore leaving them docile, numb, and oppressed.

Others may believe that a theme that would best fit the story by George Orwell is: Bullies can be overcome. Some people think this way, because according to George Orwell, he states, “The animals lashed ropes around these, and then altogether, cows, horses, sheep, any animal that could lay hold of the rope-even the pigs sometimes joined in critical moments…” This shows that this theme would fit this story perfectly, because the pigs did work in critical moments. Also, if the pigs were actually that bad of a bully, then they wouldn’t have helped, and would rather have supervised the others. While it is true that the pigs did help, it does not necessarily mean that that the pigs are the worse of the animals and they are the bullies. As seen above, it is obvious that this theme fits the text perfectly because the pigs did overcome being a bully by helping the others. Even though the animals helped only in critical moments, at least they still helped, because if they wanted, they could have just sat there and do nothing; but the pigs didn’t choose to do it that way. We can also see that the pigs aren't bullies because an attribute of a bully is to not help others, while the pigs did help the animals. Also, according to Orwell he states, “Our sole object is taking these things in to preserve our health.” This piece of evidence shows that the pigs did overcome being bullies, because they are eating what's best for them, because they know that if they want to overcome themselves being bullied, then they have to eat what’s best for them so their nutrition can help the throughout the day.

A quote from the book states “...and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”(Ch. 6, Animal Farm). Which basically makes the animals force to volunteer so they can eat. The pigs manipulated them to get what they want. The pigs also made the hens give up their eggs to make money for meals to keep the farm running. The Hens protested which lead to death threats to the hens if they did not give up their eggs. In the book it says “Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes. Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.” (Ch. 7 Animal Farm). This shows that the pigs would kill just to get their way. They didn’t care about the life just the

Orwell is able to show how when education is not given to all, it is very easy for those with it to abuse it for more power. Now that the pigs have the initial advantage over the other animals, the future holds plans of using it as a personal tool to oppression.

Throughout the book, the pigs’ decisions consistently contradict readers’ predictions and expectations, showing situational irony. Immediately after the revolution