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

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? Where meat and animal products come from
2. What is a factory farm? Where eggs milk and meat come from
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animals often fight and animal cruelty
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? Stop the spread of disease they might be immune
5. What is happening to family farms? Theyre being replaced with factory farms
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? It has risen
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Calves separated from mother tails chopped off
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? Artificial growth hormones
4. What happens to the calves? Separated from mother and fed cow blood
5. What can be caused by this? MAD cows disease
The Meatrix II 1/2
1. At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day? 5000 cows
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? Injured
3. Profit is the name of the game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous job in America.
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
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
each of the following topics that are discussed:
1. The precautionary principle says if we think an activity will cause harm, we should take protective measures
2. Feed cows should eat grass and silage , but many are fed antibiotics and byproducts
3. Policy & legislation the corporations that bring you factory farms are not only changing produced food but the
government
4. Health not only is the health of workers and local communities at risk but public health too
5. Community factory farms do not contribute to local economies and are running rural communities
6. Family farms since the 1930s the US has lost 5 million family farms
7. Cows hoof rot, contagious diseases and horrible living conditions con front factory cows
8. Milk how did the dairy industry get where it is today? And at what cost?
9. Processing after they cannot produce milk they are sent to slaughter houses to become hamburger meat
10. Workers workers on factory farms are low paid and are subjected to hazardous conditions
11. Downer cows downer cows shouldnt hobble into our food supply
12. Pesticides residues accumulate in the fat tissue of animals
13. Antibiotics low daily doses are often fed to cows to ward off disease
14. rBGH milk from cows grown injected with artificial growth hormones
15. agribusiness food production concentrates power in the hands of fewer and fewer
16. waste recycling methane digestors are not sustainable and still leave behind manure
17. waste over applied to fields
18. water - pollution runoff from factory farms pollute streams