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Date _____________
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The Meatrix Trilogy

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The Meatrix I
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What is The Meatrix? The meatrix is the story where animal products come from
What is a factory farm? A factory farm is a farm the produces dairy, eggs, meats
What happens to the animals on a factory farm? They never see day light or touch ground
Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? They are given antibiotics so
they dont get diseases and that can make new diseases.
5. What is happening to family farms? They are getting stopped because of the new farms.
The Meatrix II: Revolting
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milk
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has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? It has been getting used
happens to cows in dairy factories? They get sick because they overdose on antibiotics
is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? IT is a growth hormone they can produce more meat and
happens to the calves? They are being fed by the blood from the other cows and they are
can be caused by this? They can get a disease called 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 cows
What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? They are injured a lot
Profit is the name of the game.
As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous job In the world_.
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 gets in the meat and contains e-cola
and this can cause sickness in humans 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:
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The precautionary principle

Feed- Cows should eat grass and silage, but many are fed antibiotics and unsavory byproducts
Policy & legislation
Health
Community- The closer your house is to a factory farm the less its worth
Family farms- since the 1930s the U.S lost 5 million family farms whats happening?
Cows
Milk- how did the dairy industry get to where it is today? And at what cost
Processing- after the cows cannot produce any more milk they are sent to a slaughter house to
become hamburger meat.
10. Workers
11. Downer cows- downer cows shouldnt hobble into our food supply because
12. Pesticides=- Pesticides residues accumulates in the fat and tissues of animals
13. Antibiotics
14. rBGH- Cows are injected with artificial growth hormones and it may cause health problems
15. agribusiness
16. waste recycling
17. waste- waste is often over-supplied to the fields causing problems
18. water pollution- Runoff from factory farms has polluted streams and killed many of fish.

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?