Jungle Questions
1. Sinclair believed that to succeed in Packingtown, a person must be conniving, disloyal, and the sort of person who would spy on his coworkers and rat them out to the bosses. All-in-all, Packingtown was a dog-eat-dog world where the winners were the ones who brought down all their competition.
2. According to the passage, the plant owner's main goal is to make as much money as possible and lose the absolute minimum in the process, regardless of the methods required.
3. When Sinclair says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar...," he means that making money took precedence over anything involving the workers. If there was a way to save money, but it would endanger the workers, the plant manager would do it. If the choice was between the workers being happy and save or making money, making money would be chosen, not matter how small the profit.
Regulation of Pharmaceuticals
The Food and Drug Administration of the USA has strict regulations on the testing, productions, and marketing of pharmaceuticals. The individual ingredients of each new drug must be tested. The ingredients and their reactions will be thoroughly evaluated. After evaluation and approval, animal trials can be started. The drugs are tested on several varieties of animals in several different forms. If the animal trials are passed, human trials may begin. If human trials pass and the drug is found to be successful in doing what it was intended to do, it can be approved by the FDA for marketing towards humans. Overall, the entire process of pharmaceutical approval is quite rigorous.
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