Name _________________________________________________

Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

The Meatrix I
1. What is The Meatrix? the story we tell ourselves where our come from
2. What is a factory farm? Where most of our meet come from
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? Animal are compact closely together and in a small
space
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? To prevent disease. The
problem is that it can get resented to the antibiotics
5. What is happening to family farms? They are getting to shut down our they are being modified into
factory farm
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? People are starting to
see where their meat come from
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Can get sick and cut off their tail
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? A grow hormone. Make them get fatter
4. What happens to the calves? They are separated from their mom the day they are born. Use blood
in milk
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? Can get injury
3. ____________profit_________________________________________________________ is the name of the
game.
4. As a job, meat-packing is ___________________most dangerous ___________________________________.
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? Mourner. Ecoile poisoning
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.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

The precautionary principle

Feed- cows should eat grass and silage, but many fed antibiotics and unsavory by products
Policy & legislation
Health
Community- factory farms do not contribute to local economies and are ruining rural communities
Family farms- since the 1930s the US has lost 5 million farmers
Cows- hoof rot, mastitis, contagious diseases, and horrible living conditions confront cows on
factory farms
8. Milk9. Processing- after they can no longer give milk, some dairy cows are sent to become hamburger
meat
10. Workers-workers on factory farms are often low paid and are subjected to hazardous working
conditions
11. Downer cows
12. Pesticides- pesticides residues accumulate in the fat and tissue of animals
13. Antibiotics
14. rBGH
15. agribusiness

Name _________________________________________________
Date _____________
Honors EESMr. Dillman

The Meatrix Trilogy

Period ____________

16. waste recycling- the consolidation of food production concentrates power in the hands of fewer and
fewer corporations
17. waste- dairy CAFOs create huge amounts of waste that contaminates the air, ground and water
18. water pollution- runoff from factory farms has polluted streams and killed millions of fish
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?