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The Meatrix Trilogy

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The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix?
a. The story of how we get our dairy products and meat
2. What is a factory farm?
a. Where most eggs meat and milk come from
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm?
a. Animals are compacted closely together, the organisms are modified,
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this?
a. To keep them alive, they suffer more
5. What is happening to family farms?
a. They are getting destroyed and replaced with factory farms
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years?
a. People have been eating healthier foods
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories?
a. Tails were being cut off
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows?
a. Artificial growth hormone, to increase the production of milk and the size of the cow
4. What happens to the calves?
a. They are being fed artificial milk mixed with cow blood and are removed from their mothers
5. What can be caused by this?
a. Mad cow disease
The Meatrix II 1/2
1. At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day?
a. 5000
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories?
a. Injuries
3. profit is the name of the game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous one.
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?
a. Manure, E coli, sickness in humans and 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:
1. The precautionary principle
2. Feed cows should eat grass and silage but many are fed antibiotics and unsavory byproducts
3. Policy & legislation
4. Health
5. Community the closer a house is to a factory farm, the less its worth
6. Family farms
7. Cows calves are removed from their mothers
8. Milk 9. Processing after they are no longer able to produce milk, they are sent to their slaughter
10. Workers often low paid
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides pesticide residues accumulate in the fat and tissue of animals
13. Antibiotics low daily doses of antibiotics are often fed to the cows to ward off diseases
14. rBGH an artificial growth hormone

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Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

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15. agribusiness
16. waste recycling
17. waste waste is often over applied to fields, causing many problems
18. water pollution runoff from factory farms has polluted streams and killed millions of fish
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?