Blog 15, Part I: Summarizing the Stories (MEATRIX)

The “Meatrix” illustrates a few key points on how factory farming began. Most family farms where being taken over by agriculture corporations and these corporations where taking over at a fast rate rapidly decreasing the existence of family farms.  By doing this, the corporate machine created a slew of problems and issues such as animal cruelty, injecting antibiotics into the animals to neutralize spread of diseases between while they were caged up in bunches, massive pollution, and destroyed communities.

The “Meatrix Revolting” points out how the success of exposing factory farming has worked to some extent but still hasn’t completely shown all aspects of the business we call factory farming. The exposure of factory farming has encouraged the process of producing hundreds of sustainable and organic animal products but the problems still remains. Factory farming is still growing and getting stronger. The clip continues to show animals are kept in unhealthy environments thus causing the over usage of antibiotics. Baby cows are being injected with antibiotic hormones to increase milk productivity thus leaving the possible spread of mad cow disease to consumers and animals. As progress has been made, factory farming is still winning.  

The “Meatrix 2 ½” shows you how factory farms are being structured and operated. It clearly shows how employees are working in unsanitary conditions, employees getting injured from cutting the meat, and manure is being put right onto the meat on the product line. Meatpacking is one of the most dangerous jobs in America because of its working environments and if workers are in fact getting injured these corporations can be easily replace them. With that being said, all of this is done to increase product output and to maximize on profit.