Name _________________________________________________ Date _____________

APESMr. Dillman Period ____________

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

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix?where our food and animals come from
2. What is a factory farm?eggs meat and milk come from.
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animal cruelty, pills to prevent disease
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? Stop disease ,
5. What is happening to family farms?replaced by factory farm.
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? risen
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? milking pumps . tail chopped off .
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows?artifical growth for milk
4. What happens to the calves? get fed cow blood . separated from mother
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 cows
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? Injured by machines .
3. _Profits____________________________________________________________________ is the name of the game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is _____the most dangerous
game_________________________________________________________________.
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?
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-warning us about the factory processed food
2. Feed-should eat grass ,but are fed antibiotics
3. Policy & legislation-changing the way our food is produced
4. Health-threatened by the factory process
5. Community-slowly being ruined by the factory
6. Family farms- producing for the family but is not as popular anymore because of the factories.
7. Cowshoof rot
8. Milk-processed nowadays
9. Processing-after they cant produce anymore milk they are sent to the slaughter
10. Workers-low paid ,and have harzadous working conditions
11. Downer cows- diseased cow from the products being fed to it
12. Pesticides-accumulate in the tissue and fat
13. Antibiotics- used to ward off diseases
14. rBGH-artifiacial growth hormones
15. agribusiness-food production
16. waste recycling-not substainable and leave behind manure
17. waste-over applied to farms,contaminates water , air and ground
18. water pollution- killed many fish because of the waste that has contaminated it
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 honestly didnt know about the agribusiness and how much it affect my life. That all the meat that we eat is being processed and
isnt good cause of the harsh conditions the cows and pigs have to live in . The goal of this video is to stop the agribusiness and back
to farming which is a more healthier environment for the animals. I think starting today itll will change how I eat . I had no
knowledge on agribusiness, because the process are very unhealthy and very disease like conditions.