Name Dylan Jones
Date
Honors EESMr. Dillman
Period 4th
The Meatrix Trilogy
The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? this is where all the animals/meat on the farm come from
2. What is a factory farm? This is where eggs, milk, and meat come together
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? They are packed tightly together and killed or
slaughtered
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? Antibiotics are given to
prevent harmful diseases that could spread, the problem is the animals could develop antibiotic
resistance
5. What is happening to family farms? Family farms are declining quickly because factory farms are
replacing them because of economic advantages.
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? People are beginning to
eat healthier and use more meat products.
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? The cows are enclosed the whole time, packed together
tightly, also they are connected with machines that milk them.
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? It is an artificial growth hormone given to cows so they can
produce more milk.
4. What happens to the calves? They extract plasma from the blood of the calves and then insert 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 Cows
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? They can get badly injured or hurt
by getting cut.
3. Profit is the name of the game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is most dangerous job in the nation.
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? Blood and human parts like fingers which has
E.coli that may lead to sickness or death.
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:
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The precautionary principle
Feed cows should be fed grass and silage but many are fed antibiotics
Policy & legislation
Health- health of works and local communities threatened, but also public health is vulnerable
Community- factory farming does not contribute to local economy and ruins rural communities
Family farms- since 1930s, US has lost 5 million farmers
Cows- hoof root, mastitis, diseases, and horrible living confitions
Milk
Processing-after cows can no longer give milk, some of them are sent to slaughter to be made into
meat
10. Workers- low pay and very hazardous working conditions
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides- residue accumulates in the fat and tissue of the animals
13. Antibiotics
14. rBGH- milk from cows injected with artificial growth hormone
15. agribusiness
Name Dylan Jones
Date
Honors EESMr. Dillman
Period 4th
The Meatrix Trilogy
16. waste recycling- methane digesters are not sustainable and still leave manure
17. waste
18. water pollution
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 always thought agribusiness wasnt that bad and that it was somewhat good to the animals or cows. This
is obviously not true because of the horrible conditions for not only the cows but for the workers too. I
learned that the cows are sometimes even hooked up to machines to get milk. Also I learned that cows get
artificial growth hormones put in their milk. This is surprising to me. I think I will try to eat more organic
and healthy foods for the most part now that I see what happens to the products.
