SOCL 4252: Food in American History and Culture

An overview of this 19th-century movement that promoted plant-based foods, natural cures and opposition to standard medical practices of the day,

This periodical was a driving force behind the adoption of pure food legislation in the United States.

This chapter from the 'Battle Creek Sanitarium Book' (1912) promotes the dietary ideas of the Kellogg brothers (the inventors of Corn Flakes).

An article on the problem of food adulteration at the beginning of the 20th century.

Provides a brief history of the FDA and the 1906 federal regulation of the American food industry.

This article discusses the why the Pure Food and Drug Act passed in 1906 after being blocked in Congress for 27 years.

This film looks at the lives and careers of brothers John Harvey Kellogg and W.K. Kellogg who invented Corn Flakes (45 mins).

Tells the story of Dr. Harvey Wiley who laid the groundwork for U.S. consumer protection laws and the creation of the FDA (56 mins).

The text of this legislative act.

This novel's graphic descriptions of conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry helped to spur the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.