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APESMr. Dillman

Date _____________
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Questions for The Meatrix Trilogy http://www.themeatrix.com/

The Meatrix I
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What is The Meatrix? It is the story of where our meat and animal products come from.
What is a factory farm? Where eggs, milk, and meat come from
What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animals are packed together as close as possible, animal cruelty.
Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? To keep the animals alive, stop the spread of
disease. Too many antibiotics can increase the familiarity of that drug and can harm you.
What is happening to family farms? Family farms are getting replaced with factory farms.

The Meatrix II: Revolting

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What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? It has risen
What happens to cows in dairy factories? Milk production and tails cut off
What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? Artificial growth hormone. Produce more milk
What happens to the calves? Separated from their mother, and feed a milk replacement (With a little cow blood in it)
What can be caused by this? Mad Cow Disease

The Meatrix II 1/2

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At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day? 5 thousand cows in a day
What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? They get injured
Profit is the name of the game.
As a job, meat-packing is most dangerous.
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, ecoli, serious sickness

The Meatrix 360 Interactive Go to the following section of the site (or type/paste in this link:
http://www.themeatrix.com/interactive/index.html). Roll-over and click on the different parts of the scene. Read and take notes on
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The precautionary principle: Says if we think an activity will cause harm, we should take measures to protect ourselves.
Feed: Cows should eat grass and silage, but many are fed antibiotics and unsavory byproducts
Policy & legislation: The Corporation that brings you factory farms is not only changing the way our food is produced,
theyre changing our government as well.
Health: Not only is the health of workers and local communities at risk with factory farms, public health is also threatened.
Community: The closer a house is to a factory farm, the less its worth. Factory farms do not contribute to local economies
and are ruining rural communities.
Family farms: Since the 1930s, the US has lost 5 million farmers
Cows: Hoof rat, mastitis, contagious diseases, and horrible living conditions confront cows on factory farms.
Milk:
Processing: After they can no longer give milk, some dairy cows are sent to slaughter to become hamburger meat.
Workers: Workers on factory farms are often low paid and are subjected to hazardous working conditions.
Downer cows: Dead cows, that get fed back into the baby vows
Pesticides: Residues accumulate in the fat and tissue of animals
Antibiotics: low daily doses of antibiotics are often fed to cows to ward off diseases and make them grow faster; this
contributes to the increase in antibiotic- resistant bacteria.
rBGH: Milk from cows injected with artificial growth hormones may cause health problems.
Agribusiness: The consolidation of food production concentrates power in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations.

Name _________________________________________________
APESMr. Dillman

Date _____________
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Questions for The Meatrix Trilogy http://www.themeatrix.com/

16. waste recycling: Methane digesters are not sustainable and still leave behind manure, heavy metals and other waste
byproducts.
17. Waste: Waste is often over-applied to fields, causing many problems.
18. water pollution: Runoff from factory farms can cause nitrate to leach into private drinking 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?
Before viewing this video I actually knew a lot about agribusiness, I just didnt know what it was called. I knew what was happening
to the cows on farms I just didnt know how bad it actually was, the only thing I truly knew was that they gave the cows injections
and gave them antibiotics. Also that when they went to the factories to get processed that all the feces from the cows was leaking
on to the meat and the factories would still package it no matter what and thats why most of us were getting sick. I did learn that
they were packing the cows closer together and that they were taking the baby calves away from their mother and feeding them
milk from machines that had a little bit of cow blood in it. The goal of this video is to make more people aware of all the terrible
conditions that the cows are going through and that our meat is not so safe. I believe this will defiantly chang how I eat, Im defiantly
going to be more careful and I actually may not eat that much fast food anymore.