![]() One key idea in 1900 was truth in labeling laws about accuracy of weights and contents. ![]() So 1906 wasn't the first time such concerns surfaced - and many consumers LED rather than REACTED to the reforms in the law - Lorraine Swainston Goodwin describes this quite effectively in her book. As the quality of the food supply deteriorated and consumers became more reliant on manufactured food products in the late nineteenth centuries, consumers organized and pressed state and federal legislators to act. They pushed for similar kinds of legislation, through the auspices of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and national Consumer's League. Many consumers organizations and Pure Foods reformers began work at the state level to improve the purity of foods and drugs as early as the 1880s and 1890s. Rather than act as a CAUSE that changed a cultural mindset, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was itself an EFFECT of a changing cultural mindset of American consumers. ![]() How did the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 cause a general change in the cultural mindset of American consumers in the early 20th century? Are there problems similar to those of consumer rights in the early 1900's that are still prevalent today? TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR KENDRA SMITH-HOWARDÄ¡.
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