Name _________________________________________________

Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? When meat and animals come from a farm
2. What is a factory farm? where eggs and milk come form
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? packed together and slaughtered and also cut
chickens breast of
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? to prevent disease that
spreads around so they wont get sick. The disease can be caused an antibiotic resistance
5. What is happening to family farms? They are disappearing and replaced by factory farms because
there is more money in factory farms
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? People have began to
eat healthier, eating more meats
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Cows spend their whole life bunched up and their tails
are cut of and hooked to a machine to be milked
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? artificial growth hormone. To produce more milk so they
can become larger
4. What happens to the calves? Take the blood and extract the plasma and put it in the milk
5. 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? 500,000
What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? They get injured or cut
Profit is the name of the game.
As a job, meat-packing is The most dangerous job in the nation
Due to the speed of the processing, what gets all over the meat? What bacteria does this
substance contain? What problems can this cause? Blood and fingers, E-coli, can cause sickness
or 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 diferent parts of the scene. Read and describe any 10 of the words below:
1. The precautionary principle
2. Feed-Cows are feed grass and silage
3. Policy & legislation
4. Health
5. Community
6. Family farms-Since the 1930s last 5 million farmers
7. Cows- hoof root, mastitis, contagious disease horrible living conditions
8. Milk
9. Processing- after they can no longer give milk, some are sent to slaghter
10. Workers
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides- Pesticides residues there accumulations in the fat and tissue of an animal
13. Antibiotics-low daily doses of antibiotics are fed to ward of diseases and make them grow faster
14. rBGH
15. agribusiness
16. waste recycling
17. waste
18. water pollution

Name _________________________________________________
Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

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?