Throughout the Progressive Era, there have been various issues which need to be improved on in America. As a progressive, I have decided to try to solve the biggest issue of all, the lack of protection for consumers. For years, consumers have been fooled and lied to by the manufacturers of food products. These many businesses have been processing and distributing dangerous products to their customers. The amount of corruption and fraud created around the lack of protection for consumers is unsafe and unfair to all humans. In an effort to fix this major issue, I am willing to help put an end to this unseen side of the corruption in factories.
As a progressive reformer, I have worked for years to find a way to expose the corruption of food and drug companies to enact for change. In my studies, I have found that many factories and manufacturers have been using techniques to cover up their use of fraud and corruption. Food processors, meat packers, and drug companies have developed new ways to hide their corruption. One of these ways is by adding substances to their products to make it appear fresh. For quite a while, unnecessary chemicals or ingredients have been added to the spoiled products and deceitfully sold to consumers. According to journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Gullible [easily fooled] America will spend this year some seventy-five millions of dollars in the purchase of patent [over-the-counter] medicines.It will swallow huge quantities of alcohol, an appalling amount of opiates and narcotics.” Drug companies have been selling medicine that contains deadly drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, or morphine to their customers. Companies have also been falsely labelling their products by claiming that they can cure illnesses, while instead, they are poisonous.
In addition, I have discovered that because of the unsafe working conditions in meat packing industries, many workers have had parts of their body’s cut off and accidenta...