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Date _____________
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The Meatrix Trilogy
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The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix?
It is the story we tell ourselves where meat comes from
2. What is a factory farm?
Where most eggs, meat and dairy
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm?
They are packed to get so close together that they cant move
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this?
To keep them alive and the problem is they get stronger and start to resist the antibiotics
5. What is happening to family farms?
They are turned into factory farms
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years?
People are starting to realize the harm that t
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories?
They are making them sick and they cut off their tails, and baby calfs are fed milk replacer
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows?
An artificial growth hormone given to cows, to make them bigger and produce more milk.
4. What happens to the calves
They are separated from their mothers, and fed milk replacer
5. What can be caused by this?
Mad cow disease
The Meatrix II 1/2
1. At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day?
5,000
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories?
They get hurt
3. _____profit________________________________________________________________ is the name of the
game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is _____________most dangerous
____________________________________________________.
5. Due to the speed of the processing, what gets all over the meat? What bacteria does this
substance contain? What problems can this cause?
Poop gets everywhere even on the meat. E. coli. it can cause poisoning and cause other major
diseases.
The Meatrix 360 Interactive Go to the following section of the site (or type/paste in this link:
http://www.themeatrix.com/educate ). Then Click on Meatrix Interactive 360 then Roll-over and click
on the different parts of the scene. Read and describe any 10 of the words below:
1. The precautionary principle
Says if we think an activity will cause harm we should take measures to protect ourselves
2. Feed
Cows should eat grass and silage, but they are feed antibiotics and unsavory byproducts
3. Policy & legislation
They change the way our food is produced and theyre change our government as well.
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4. Health
Local communities are put at risk with factory farms
5. Community
Factory farms dont contribute to local economy and are ruining communities
6. Family farms
Since the 1930s the us has lost over 5 million family farms.
7. Cows
They have contagious diseases (mad cow disease), and horrible living conditions
8. Milk
9. Processing
10. Workers
Workers are low paid and can get hurt very easily.
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides
They accumulate in the fat and tissue of animals
13. Antibiotics
They give these to cows to ward off diseases and make them grow faster
14. rBGH
15. agribusiness
16. waste recycling
17. waste
18. water pollution
Run off from factories causes nitrate to leach into private drink wells
Write: Before viewing these videos, how much did you know about agribusiness? What was some new
information you learned from these videos? What is the goal of these videos? Do you think these videos
will change how you eat? Why/why not?
I didnt know anything about agribusiness nor did I know how bad it was. I learned that animals arent
always treated nicely and I learned that because of agribusiness disease can be spread a lot faster. The
goal was to show that life for animals isnt always what they seem and it wanted us to be aware of this
animal cruelty. I think Ill start to look in stores for free range animals because I know that they will taste
better and that, that animal got a chance to live its life.
