Name _________________________________________________

Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix?
The story we tell ourselves where meat comes from.
2. What is a factory farm?
Where most meat milk and eggs come from. Animals are put in close quarters and then cause
many diseases between these animals.
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm?
They get sick and cause pollution in our food.
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this
Because they are constantly around bacteria and they want them to stay alive. The amount of
antibiotics causes the disease to become resistant to the antibiotics.
5. What is happening to family farms?
They are becoming outcompeted.
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years?
It has pretty much disappeared and people are becoming more aware
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories?
Spend their entire lives in the factory, disease, tails cutoff.
3. What is RBGH? Why is it given to cows?
Artificial growth hormones to make them produce more milk and grow larger for slaughter.
4. What happens to the calves?
Separated from others at birth being fed milk with cow blood.
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 injured
3. _______________________________________profit______________________________ is the name of the
game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is _____________the 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? Manure, E-coli, deadly strand of bacteria that
causes 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- if we think an activity will cause us harm we will take measures to
protect ourselves.
2. Feed- should eat grass but are often fed antibiotics and unsavory byproducts.
3. Policy & legislation- the people who produce factory farms are not only changing the way our food is
produced they are changing our government as well.
4. Health- public health and workers at these factories health are also threatened.
5. Community- factory farms do not support local economies and are ruining rural communities
6. Family farms- since the 1930s us has lost over 5,000 farmers.
7. Cows- hoof rot, horrible living conditions, and contagious diseases confront cows at the factory
farms.
8. Milk
9. Processing

Name _________________________________________________
Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

10. Workers
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides
13. Antibiotics
14. rBGH- growth hormone that cows are injected with.
15. agribusiness
16. waste recycling
17. waste- is over applied to fields causing issues
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?