The Meatrix is about a young pig name Leo Ham-derson that is living in a fantasy farm. He is then giving a chance to learn about the real world where he is in a Factory farm. Leo gets to see the truth on how most eggs, milk products, and meat come from; from being in a factory farm. He learns about greedy corporations and how they began to modify sustainable family farming to maximize profits. And in these factory farms there is a lot of animal cruelty, where the animals are being abused in many ways. They fight amongst each other, some animals get debeeked, they are being overdosed with antibiotics. The animals are surrounded in there excretions, leading to massive pollution to the community that surrounds the factory.
The Meatrix 2 Revolting
The Meatrix 2 Revolting begins by showing the progress they have made in the past 2 years of making people aware of where their food products comes from and how they are a healthier choice. In this film it also goes deeper into the way animals are being treated. They show how they spend their whole life basically in one spot doing one thing; they also show how the animals are being pumped with artificial growth hormones called RBGH. It is being used even though in other countries like Canada and the European Union banned it, it also shows how animals can get mad cow disease by feeding on the dead animal instead of the milk they need.
The Meatrix 2 and a Half
In the last film we are giving a quick recap of what was learned so far. Then it goes into the processing facilities. It talks about how the factories can process five thousand cows in a day; just to feed our fast food nation. They also begin to talk about the dangerous working conditions and how meat packing is the most dangerous job in the nation. Then they show us how E coli comes about from the processing facilities trying to work so fast without making sure everything is clean.
The Meatrix 360
While reading the article in the Interactive 360 I found that these industrial farms are no good. They continue to produce food that is harmful to our health and they are affecting the local economies, community and environment. These large industrial farms tend to make claims that they will support the local economies by investing in the communities and creating new jobs but they seem to the opposite. They are also affecting the people that are in the community because the pollution they spew into the air and the water is having a dangerous affect. I read that they spread air pollutants like hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and a whole lot of animal poo. It also talked about how these large farms also often pollute local water sources, mainly through the release of nitrates and nitrites from chemical fertilizers. A study of almost 2,000 wells across the country showed that 9 percent of domestic wells and 2 percent of public-supply wells had nitrate concentrations in excess of the EPA’s maximum contaminant level. Nitrate poisoning can cause dangerously low blood-oxygen levels in babies (or blue-baby syndrome), spontaneous abortions, and possibly cancer. This is a huge problem in rural communities, because rural Americans depend on ground-water and domestic wells. These Large farms need to do something about everything that they are doing in those farms. They need to make a lot of changes that will truly benefit the community that they surround. And the people that are being affecting by this need to continue to fight because if something doesn’t change it will continue to get worse. I thank God for this website because this is a great start to make people more aware of what is going on in the rural areas that these large industrial farms are hurting and to everyone that continue to support them by buying their products.
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