2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
1. The qualities Sinclair believed a person must have to succeed in Packingtown were that you have to be fast and you have to be outgoing and only care about yourself to be able to rise in the business.
2.The plant owner's main goal was to have as many workers as they could work as fast as they could to kill more animals to make more money. They didn't care about being a good worker, all they wanted was someone that could work fast and not care about the little details. The owners would also save more money by not caring about their working conditions.
3. Sinclair means that none of the workers were actually seen as people, each of them were just seen as more money for the owners. Some having a bigger price than others, when he says "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar...".
Before 1998 the meat inspectors were only permitted to inspect the meat by looking at it. After the Jack in the Box E Coli outbreak in 1993 the lawmakers had to change the regulations. The redesigned system was called Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). Each company now had to have inspectors come in and take samples of the meat for testing for bacteria levels in the meat. The inspectors have to monitor the companies' compliance with their own plans. The jury is still trying to decide whether this system is helping with food borne illnesses or whether they need to make a whole new one up.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/evaluating/haccp.html
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