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 Upton Sinclair Wrote the jungle to show the struggles of lower class america however his audience was more concerned with the meat packing industry. This began the push for consumer safety and rights. Consumers now wanted to know what they bought was safe.

 Federal Trade Commision Was formed in 1914 in response to years of national debate about competition policy.

 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly.

 People For:  -Upton Sinclair: It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence.

 -Ralph Nader: In 1965, Nader wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, a book which claimed that many American automobiles were unsafe. The first chapter, "The Sporty Corvair - The One-Car Accident," pertained to the Corvair manufactured by the Chevrolet division of General Motors which had been involved in accidents involving spins and rollovers. Also Ralph Nader and wrote the book, The Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on the Food and Drug Administration we analyzed the national television information on food and found that the top ten foods advertised on television, all fell outside the basic four food groups, that was the main way we talked about nutrition in the late 1960's.

 -Marc Kasky: best known for bringing a lawsuit against Nike in 1998 under a California law against false advertising and unfair competition for their advertising claims about treatment of Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese workers at company subcontractors.

 -Michael Pertschuk: he was instrumental in drafting the landmark legislation that required warnings on cigarette labels and that banned broadcast advertising of tobacco products, auto and product safety laws, and the Magnuson-Moss Act, strengthening the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection powers

 - Clark Howard: a nationally syndicated consumer advocate who advises consumers how to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. His radio show is heard every day on more than 200 radio stations throughout North America.

 - Harvey w. Wiley: Was th efirst at the Food and Drug Administration, Wiley spent his early years helping plant and harvest the crops, Wiley had been sought to set up and direct the Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health for Good Housekeeping.

 - Katherine Albrecht: in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She worked with Ralph Nader. She is a consumer privacy advocate and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification.

 -Joan Claybrook: worked on improving highway and auto safety. In 1966, she teamed up with Nader to successfully lobby for passage of the nation's first auto safety laws - the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act. These acts empowered the government to establish safety standards for new vehicles and issue recalls for defective vehicles and parts.

 People against:  - Taco Bell: USDA was allowing companies to use pink slime (textured beef) in their food and they wanted them to put that as an ingredient on their packaging  - Diamond Pet Food: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #292727; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salmonella Infantis was found in their dog food <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sportspower (Sold at Walmart): CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $900 billion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The book “The Jungle” was a major catalyst for the consumer rights movement however the book primarily focused on the life of immigrants. This is a good example of the connection to immigrant right that consumer rights have. A Lot of the upper class didn’t need to worry about such things however many times the lower class was taken advantage of.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ralph Nader is a big activist for consumer rights. This is very evident in his fighting for vehicle safety. While buying a safe vehicle isn’t a right, knowing how safe something is should be and he fights for both of these.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Present & Future:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Present: Consumer Rights still exist today in many stores. For example if you buy a electronis at a Best Buy they give you a warranty stating that you have a specific amount of days to return an item if there is something wrong with it. The rights still stand today because on the back of every food box, bag, or carton there are ingredients of what is put into the food that you are eating.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Future: Consumer Rights will get bigger in the Food Industry because people would demand to know what they are eating and the chemicals that are being put in their food. Also people would start understanding the rights that they have and notice that big businesses are only harmful to them.

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