Friday, May 2, 2014

Blog 9 part 1 meatrix films

          In the meatrix,Leo is an ordinary pig in what he thinks is a family farm.Until moopheus,comes and tells him things are not what it seems where our food comes from,and offers him two pills.one pill to stay where he is(blue pill)or take the red pill to find out the truth.Leo takes the red pill.Leo awakens in a factory farm.where Leo is shown the harsh realities of being an animal in a factory farm.Pigs are cramed together,where they can hardly move.Pigs are fed antibiotics to keep them alive under these harsh conditions,which in tern creates super bacteria that harm humans.Everything from animal cruelty to communities being destroyed by the practices of factory farming are shown to Leo.Leo decides in the end to join in the fight to stop these practices.
          The meatrix revolting,shows the dark side of dairy factory farming.In the film it is exposed how corporations keep cows in crammed spaces and inject them with growth hormones that are banned in Europe and in canada.most of our dairy and cheese come from farms like these.calfs are fed with a milk replacement partly made by cows blood as a cost saving measure.the film ends with moopehus being kidnapped,and Leo stated we can help by supporting our family farmer as he goes off in a bid to save moopehus.
          Part 2.5 of the meatrix,shows one of the agents exposing moopehus,to all the ins and outs of a cow slaughterhouse.In the film it shows how speed is the main proposition.Creating hazardous conditions for the workers.Also the line is moving so fast it causes the meat to get contaminated with feces from the cow intestine.Which opens up the door for disease such as ecoli.In the end moopehus is saved by Leo.

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