Blog Entry 3.4 The Meatrix

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Meatrix:

   In the film the meatrix, Leo and Moopheous go on an adventure to learn about the real story about where our daily meat comes from. In this film we see that Leo is a pig and moopheous is a cow, like in the movie The Matrix, we see that in this replica Morpheus (the cow) is trying to show Leo (pig) the real world rather than the allusion that he has. In addition the film also speaks about factories in today’s world and how it has changed from being family farms to factory farms, where agriculture corporations have destroy all the family farms in order build factory farms. This film explains that agriculture corps has destroyed over two million family farms because they want to maximizes profit since it’s the consumers daily source. In this film Moopheous talked about the difference about family farms and factory farms. The factory farms animals are treated badly, they don’t have much space to move, and that’s the reason why there are many bacteria among the animals that can be dangerous. Also the way they make more cows and chickens and pigs is by a feeding them antibiotics that keep them alive so more animals can be reproduce. finally, this film also teaches us that  aside from the allusion, people don’t know where they meat comes from therefore we are at risk to unhealthy food, So Leo goes on an adventure to learn more about these factory farms.

Meatrix: Revolting

    In this second film the adventure of Leo and Moopheous continues. Leo learns that people Are trying to eat much healthier but even thought that other don’t take action, there is still problems. Some of the problems that this film speaks about are that moderns farms and how they have the unhealthiest conditions. The modern farms use an artificial growth hormone known as RBGH which makes animals grow and is a source of food so that instead of growing naturally they are injected with this hormone so they can grow artificially. Moopheous also tells Leo that in these factory farms, calves, baby cows, are separated from their mothers to be fed with milk that is produce by blood of other ceased animals. Because of this there’s the reason why there is mad cows diseases between these animals that can harm us if we consume this because animals have bacteria. In this film Moopheous is taken by the enemies also known as the agriculture corps agents.

Meatrix II ½

     In this third film the main idea was about real world and how these factory farms are affecting us, the consumers. In this film the agents tell Moopheous that these factories are created with the purpose to feed thousands of consumers because of our fast food nation. In this film the agents say that the factories havemany dangerous working conditions. One of them is that workers can cut their hands while they are cutting the meat and if the process of meat packing is going faster .second the agents tell moopheous about the purpose of speeding the process, the outcome to this is that manure, cows excrement, can hit the meat and cause Ecoli, a bacteria that can make consumers sick. In addition, the agents tell moopheous that the reason why they speed up the process of meat packing is because they have to produce more profit, meaning more money and more consumers. And for this reason this is why people don’t know that there meat comes from a place where there is bad conditions like the one this film explains.

Article

This article was about the main issues that workers face while working in factory farms. Some of the issues mentioned in this article were: health issues,working conditions,and working rights.This article said that working in a factory is the most hazadours job in America,meaning the most dangerous job because of its consequences.
The reason why is because these workers are exposed to many things such unhealthy and dangerous conditions.Some of the problems consistt of health issues,these workers are exposed to bacteria and diseases that makes them have serious health isssues.In this article the author mentioned that these worker have health problems because of the animals they work with.Famrn animals that are kept in a enclosed enviroment with these workers and mostlikely to get infections and other serious conditions that can affect them later on in life.This article says that workers can be atrisk when they breath in the gases caused by these animals and their manure.The manure of an animal can contain alot of bacteria and cause you to have respiratory issues.In addition these workers can get cut while butchering these animals.This article sdaid that 12 workers died while working at factorie farms because they have drown in animals excrement.
Also this article talks about workers right. It wsays that most of these workers are undocumented workers who are paid the minimun.This means that they work for a low wage because there isnt other people who will do this job.Even thoought they are not legal in this country they have working rights that protects them from abuse and health conditions,but it says that these workers are scared because they will loose the job and they wont be able to find another or are even afraiod that they would get fired.