Blog 15: The Meatrix

Blog 15, Part I: Summarizing the Meatrix

Video 1:  The Meatrix

The Meatrix starts with a pig name Leo on a farm about to eat when a mysteries cow dress in a black trench coat name moopheus talk to him and ask him if Leo want to know what’s the Meatrix is.  The cow give him a choice to swallow a blue pill and the pig will stay in the farm or a red pill and it will let him see what really the meatrix is.  Moopheus explain to Leo how the meatrix started in the mid 20 century when big greedy agriculture corporations were buying small family run farm and changing them to a factory farm,  Where the animal are packed as closely together as possible, so they have more meat to produce( animal cruelty). Causing then to get sick but those big corporations are giving them dosage of antibiotics to animals so they can keep them alive. By doing that the virus that around the animals are developing strains of resistant disease-causing germs that can cause an epidemic that can’t be stopped in the future. Plus the cow explains that the factory farms by having tons of animals are causing massive pollution on the area they are in, sickening the people on that community.

Video 2

The Meatrix revolting:

It’s start with both Leo and Moopheous talking about how the both free 10 million minds (People) from the meatrix, in which Chickity is so proud of Leo that they looked at each other with a face that they want to make up. After that Moopheous tells Leo they have to go back to the meatrix, since there Leo see a beautiful farm with cows eating grass and looking happy. In which Moropheous tell Leo that what he is seeing is the illusion from the meatrix.  The truth is that where the cows are is on a factory farm, is a dirty and sicking condition. The factory gives s antibiotic to those cows to prevent from sicking, in which that’s bad for the cow too much of that can affect the outcome from the food they are making. Moopheous explains to Leo that those factories use artificial hormones so that the cows can produces more milk, Those Hormones are ban in other parts of the world but not in the USA.  Leo also sees how the young cows are drinking blood from the die cows in which can cause mad cow disease.

 

Video # 3: The Meatrix 2 ½

Chikity and Leo are riding on a motorcycle to a slaughter factor called Happy Farms, where they package the cow’s meat also where Moopheous is held captive by the agent from Agri-Corp. The Agent tells Moopheous about the factory, how they don’t care about the safety of the meat only the fast production of it to be sold at supermarkets. (a scene from Fast Food Nation) Leo and Chikity get inside the factory and sees that the factory is dirty and the meats are making mix the crap.  Plus they see a worker cut his finger while working fast cutting the meats. They go and rescue moopheous from the agent and they are able to escape the factory.

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Blog 15, Part II: Responding to a Factory Farming Issue

During the early 20^th century the United States started the industrial revolution. At the same time The U.S. was involved in World War II.  As a result the food industry wanted to supply food to our troops, in a fast way and wanted to keep the food to last longer and usual. They threw out the basic ways of farming, in which farming became corporation factories in production of food in a rapid time. Until today companies used those ways to make food for the consumers. Luckily some family farms still use the old basic farms ways, this way of farming soon came to be known as “organic”.

The principle of organic is to make food as natural as possible, without any involving of any type of chemical or hormones. The USDA definition of “Organic Production” is “a production system that is managed in accordance with organicfoods production act and regulations in this part to respond to site-specific conditions by integratin cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity”. This is a great way for people to eat and have their food process. Our bodies weren’t meant to break down chemicals that people created to grow faster and reserve longer.  In the long run those chemicals are making our body vulnerable to sickness, for example now in days younger people are having sickness that supposable an older person should have, like diabetics, high cholesterol, etc.  In the past we never saw cases like that because our food was process the organic way.