Name _________________________________________________ Date _____________

APESMr. Dillman Period ____________

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

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? the story of what you tell yourself of how farms are produced
2. What is a factory farm? Where most of us purchase our produces
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animal cruelty
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? Fight of disease, but is you become immune to
disease
5. What is happening to family farms? They are being destroyed
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? People are starting to become aware
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Calf are separated, tails are chopped off
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? An artificial growth hormone, makes cows produce more milk
4. What happens to the calves? They are being fed cows 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? 5000
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? injured
____________________________profit is the name of the game.
3. As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous job in the nation_____________________________________.
4. Due to the speed of the processing, what gets all over the meat? What bacteria does this substance contain? What
problems can this cause? Cow waste, disease
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- if we think a activity harms us we should protect our selfs
2. Feed- antibiotics and unsavory byproducts
3. Policy & legislation- food companys have a huge inpact of what food is produced, and who gets it
4. Health- not only is the health of workers and close communities are at risk, but health is to
5. Community- the closer a house it to a factory farm the less its worth
6. Family farms- since the 1930 the us has lost over 5 million farms
7. Cows- hoof rot, disease, and terrible living conditions affect cows on a daily basis
8. Milk- being sucked out by machines
9. Processing- after they can no longer give milk, some dairy cows are sent to the slaughter house
10. Workers- low wages and hazardous working conditions
11. Downer cows- cows riden with disease
12. Pesticides- reduce the accumulate and fat in the cow
13. Antibiotics- wards off disease and make them grow faster, contributes to immune bacteria
14. rBGH- artificial growth hormone
15. agribusiness- the consolation of food puts power in fewer and fewer food companys
16. waste recycling- methane digesters are not sutiable for cow manure and leave behind manure
17. waste- appied to fields and causes problems
18. water pollution- runoff from factories farms pollutes waster and kills millions of fish
Name _________________________________________________ Date _____________
APESMr. Dillman Period ____________
Questions for The Meatrix Trilogy http://www.themeatrix.com/

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 knew
about the agribusiness and the goals of the videos were to inform people of what they do. I can say that the videos will change how I
eat, but it wont. The problem is that I dont buy the food my parents do and they are not going to spend three times as much for
organic food. If we were going to buy organic things it would probably be from the farmers market.