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The Meatrix Trilogy

The Meatrix I
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What is The Meatrix?

The Meatrix is story of what meats are and where they come from.
What is a factory farm?
Where most dairy and meat come from.
What happens to the animals on a factory farm?
The animals are packed together in close courters, some of them never see daylight, and disease spread.
Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this?
To prevent diseases. The problem with this is antibiotic resistance, causing stronger diseases to occur.
What is happening to family farms?
The family farms are being destroyed by cooperate companies.

The Meatrix II: Revolting

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What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years?
Freed many minds from the Meatrix. People are purchasing healthier, safer products.
What happens to cows in dairy factories?
The cows are kept in close courters, sickness, removing tails, and calves are removed from their mothers.
What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows?
An artificial growth hormone. It is given to cows because they want them to get bigger and produce more milk.
What happens to the calves?
The calves are given an artificial source of a mothers milk.
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?

5,000 cows in a single day.
What often happens to the workers in the processing factories?
The workers are getting injured.
Profit is the name of the game.
As a job, meat-packing is the 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?
Manure gets all over the meat. The substance contains eccoli. It can cause sickness 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
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The precautionary principle

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Policy & legislation
Health- Not only is the health of worker and local communities at risk with factory farms, public health is also threatened.
Community- The closer a house is to a factory far the less it is worth.
Family farms- Since the 1930s, the US has lost 5 million farmers.
Cows- Hoof rot, matistis, contagious disease, and horrible living conditions confront cows on factory farms.

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Date _____________
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The Meatrix Trilogy

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Milk
Processing- After cows can no longer get milk, some are sent to slaughter houses to become hamburger meat.
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Pesticides
Antibiotics- Low daily dose of antibiotics are often fed to cows to ward off diseases and make them grow faster.
rBGH- Milk from cows injected with artificial growth hormones may cause health programs
agribusiness- The consolidation of food production concentrates power in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations.
waste recycling
waste- Dairy CAFOs create huge amounts of waste that contaminates the air, ground and water.
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?
I did not know anything about agribusiness. I learned that the agribusiness does not focus on the well-being and safety of their
workers and family farms. They are completely focused and determined on receiving a large profit that they are totally oblivious of
the consequences of their actions and procedures. The goal of this video series was to educate people on the agribusiness, its
problems, and what could be done to solve them. I definitely believe this video will change how I eat because I care about where my
food comes from and how they care treated before they are killed for profit.