Blog 15

The Meatrix is a short cartoon film describing the process that animals go through in meat packing factories. The first short film describes how many farm lands are being destroyed due to Factory Farming Corp. It shows us how a lot of animals are being treated. Chickens are being de beaked because they are housed in such cruel environments that they bite each other. By the chickens biting each other it causes germs that affect the surrounding animals. Most of the animals are being injected with antibiotic resistant germs. Most of these farming factories are causing pollution. Too much manure is being processed and nowhere to be dumped, which is causing our waters to be polluted.

The Meatrix Revolting tells us how factories operate. Anyone that is not familiar with the way these factory work would believe that all animals are treated fairly. The reality of this is that most cows are being treated unfairly. They live in unhealthy conditions, are being fed growth hormones, and antibiotics to heal them. Baby cows are being fed blood from the dead. This can cause mad cow disease.

The Meatrix II ½ elaborates on how factories process there meats. Factories can process up to 5,000 cows a day. Workers at the factory are endangering their workers. By processing there meats at a fast pace workers are being injured. Most factories feel that the workers are expendable. The factories only concern is profits.
The film clearly describes how society is starting to take charge against Dairy farming. Society is starting to purchase healthier foods.



Family Farming Are Making A Come back

Due to industrial agriculture which pollutes communities, family farms are making a comeback. In the recent years there has been an overwhelming increase in small family farms. The world is finally coming together to help and support small family farms.

In the article “Family Farms” it states that Chefs, food lovers, citizens, parents and activists are joining forces to help small farmers. Industrial agriculture operations have been polluting our farm land with chemical pesticides, noxious fumes and excess manure. The small farmer’s goal is to preserve their communities and the environment. Small farmers are using farming techniques to protect our resources and our health.
The world is going back to healthy and organic foods, small farmers have the advantage to produce most of our healthy foods. The article shows us that there are organizations that help small farmers. Such as, Slow foods, Heritage Foods USA, New England Heritage Breeds Conservancy and Chefs Collaborative. These organizations main focus is to promote locally grown healthy foods.

Since everyone nowadays are starting to eat healthy and buy organic foods its helping our small farmers to reopen there farmland and cultivate health foods. This is a huge come back that will help our environment and help generate new business for our small farmers.

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Topic 1: The perfect world versus the real world (Google Groups question 1)
Cristoff creates what he considers a “perfect world” for Truman to live “happily ever after.”
Would you choose to live in Cristoff’s world?
Why or why not?
What does the world Cristoff has created tell us about our own society?
What problems from our society does Christoff seem to want to solve, or “eliminate” for Truman?
What problems does he leave in Truman’s world? Please use specific details from the film to support your answer.

1.I would Choose to live in Cristoff’s world because everything is innocent. Seems that in Cristoff’s world there is no malice or any delinquent tendencies. By any means necessary Truman was protected…

2.At the same time would I be comfortable with people lying to me. Obviously if you don’t know the truth sometimes you won’t feel the pain of being lied to.

3. We live based on lies. And while growing up and maturing we keep noticing that our world is not as perfect as it seems to be. Its easy to manipulate s person based on lies. That we was once innocent until we were able to realize the truth. Once we noticed the truth about society instead of us making changes for the better we continue to accept the malice. We lost that innocent self in our lives.

4. Christoff wants to eliminate him from “learning” that the outside world is not perfect. He wants him to stay innocent. So that he wont learn the wrong doing that our society lives by. Examples Accidents, infidelity, corruption, and homelessness.

5. The problem he left in Truman’s world was deceive. In one of the scenes he walks into an elevator and tries to use it. The elevator was actually a set of the community. Instead of it being real it was put there to deceive Truman into thinking its real.


Carolina & Julio.......We had problems doing the work so we tried team work.