Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser both provide various views and perspectives on the approaches to covering the issue of food safety within our nation. While both provide substantial and vital information they both also have many differences. Both authors differed primarily due to the fact that Sinclair used his knowledge and gatherings in order to reveal and show the terrible and horrifying conditions in which meat was stored and later distributed for citizens to consume. At the same time Schlosser heavily emphasized the dishonest and terrible treatment of animals that are used for meat as well as the hazardous working conditions of employees.

Sinclairs findings primarily focuses on the dangers of workers in a Colorado meat factory. These workers had to work in a very noisy area because of all the power tools running simultaneously, which would be used to slice the meat.T he working environment was humid  which as a result would bring out all the horrid smells of dead animals. Workers were dressed in white coats to provide armor, but the tools were so sharp that they would easily puncture the suit and bare flesh.

In the end I find Eric Schlosser to be a more trustworthy source un terms of his findings. This is primarily due to the fact that he gave a first person account of what hardships he saw the workers go through within the factory in Colorado.Sinclair wrote an account that isn’t truly reliable since he describes a made up family that worked in Chicago. Sinclair does not provide a source for his information.