Blog 3.4 The Meatrix Summaries.

In the first film of The Meatrix, Moopheus goes to a pig named Leo offering him to pills. One is to stay on the fantasy farm and the other shows him the real world and what is really happening. When he take the real world pill he see how the animals are cramped all together where they can barely move and see sunlight or get fresh air. That causes diseases between the animals so instead they started to add pills which would keep the animals alive but the overdoses also causes disease causing germs. The excrement pollutes the air and water that makes factory farms get sickness also. He shows Leo how the food that is being bought is a lie and not really from farms. Leo wants to help stop the factory farming machines.

   In the Meatrix Revolting, Moopheus talks about how people are realizing where food comes from and is starting to buy healthier foods but there is still a place where they use machine farming. He shows him how the place looks, cows packed together and manure everywhere. Even though they have antibiotic the cows still get sick. The cows are also being pumped with artificial growth hormones. Baby cows are separated from there mother at birth and being fed milk replacers made from the cow's blood which causes mad cow disease. Leo fights off the agents but they capture Moopheus.Moopheus tells Leo to stop the other dairy factories. Leo also wants to rescue him.

   In the Meatrix II 1/2, they see how meat is hanging on a machine and workers are cutting it up but they raise the speed of the machines to get more meat cut up. This makes the workers get hurt because the machines speed. That is being done for profit but it is very dangerous. Manure is falling every where because of the speed, even on the meat. The agent puts Moopheus on the machine line to get cut up but Leo slows it down so he can fight the agent off and Moopheus gets rescued.

   One item from the factory farm tour was Mad Cow disease. Mad cow disease is a fatal disease that spreads throughout the body from the spinal cord to the brain. Tiny holes in the brain are caused from the infection causing brain damage and then eventually will lead to death. The disease makes the cows to be unphysical and not able to move. This disease is transmitted when cows eats meat scraps from other cows. Even if the cow meat was infected it was still distributed and caused many people to die from the disease. The epidemic was global. The Food and Drug Administration tried to make stricter regulations and rule to prevent the spread but actually failed because an outbreak of the mad cow disease happened in America in 2003 when a cow was discovered with it. The calves are fed pig and cow blood, plate waste and poultry litter which can also cause the mad cow disease. This is also unsanitary. If farmers took care of their cows and do not give them the antibiotic or put them through farm factories where they are given artificial growth hormones then this would probably would not happen, or spread world wide. Its the artificial chemicals that are given to these cows which is not right. People do these things because they are cruel and become greedy, wanting to make more profit off the meats.