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The document summarizes key points from "The Meatrix Trilogy" videos about factory farming practices. It discusses how animals are confined in poor conditions and given antibiotics, how this threatens public health. It also notes how industrial agriculture is threatening small family farms. Specific issues highlighted include the treatment of dairy cows, use of growth hormones, risks of mad cow disease, dangers to slaughterhouse workers, and pollution from waste. The document aims to educate students on these issues and encourage more sustainable eating habits.

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Meatirxtrilogyquestions

The document summarizes key points from "The Meatrix Trilogy" videos about factory farming practices. It discusses how animals are confined in poor conditions and given antibiotics, how this threatens public health. It also notes how industrial agriculture is threatening small family farms. Specific issues highlighted include the treatment of dairy cows, use of growth hormones, risks of mad cow disease, dangers to slaughterhouse workers, and pollution from waste. The document aims to educate students on these issues and encourage more sustainable eating habits.

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Name _________________________________________________

Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? All around us, where animal and farm products come from.
2. What is a factory farm? Where meat and dairy produced
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animals are packed into pins together, diseases
spreads, and cant move.
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? To stop diseases from
spreading, antibiotic resistant.
5. What is happening to family farms? They are shrinking, due to the increase of factory farms.
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? Its gone up; people
are eating healthier products.
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Sick conditions, antibiotic overuse.
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? Growth hormones. Bigger and More Milk
4. What happens to the calves? Separated from mothers, and feed artificial milk, with proteins from
the mothers or other comes.
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? - 5000
What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? Get 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, E-Coli, 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 the scene. Read and describe any 10 of the words below:
1. The precautionary principle
2. Feed Increasing number of food animals once raised on pastures are now raised in feedlots. Feed
heavily
3. Policy & legislation
4. Health Air pollutants such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and particulate matter are released in
significant quantities by large confined animal feeding operations.
5. Community Factory Farm jobs pay such low wages the work is a server pay cut for local residents.
6. Family farms
7. Cows
8. Milk
9. Processing
10. Workers
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides
13. Antibiotics
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?

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