Blog# 9 Part I: summaries of the films, Part II: Responding to a Factory Farming Issue

                                                     Part #1 Meatrix films

Back In the days of the year 1950, the meatrix showed to us the reality of how factory farms reproduce a big amount of food. Basically what they do is crow all the animals at the point that they can’t even move. And by having no space to move and breathe animals get sick very often. Then, they have to treat the animals by giving antibiotics, which cause bacteria to the environment affecting human health.

In “Revolting”, shows how the baby animals are separated from the mother. They feed them with a milk replacement made by the cow’s blood to save more money. In addition, to make animals grow up faster they inject to them growth hormones.

The meatrix II ½ shows, the average of the cows that slaughterhouse factory uses to prepare fast food such as: tacos, hamburgers, meatballs. This is around 5000 cows per day. By processing that many cows per day leads several contamination with cow’s feces, affecting to all the humans that consume the meat because they can be expose to e-coli epidemics.

                           Part #2  Responding to a Factory Farming issue

According to the sustainable table, the website for the film the meatrix, nowadays in the United States of America, the issue about water pollution is affecting our society even more than back in the days of the year 2000. Water pollution comes from industrial farms by storing animal waste for a long period time in big containers known as “Lagoons”. Those big containers are liable to collapse by any natural storms, causing environmental damages. Nitrogen and Phosphorous are the most common water pollution caused by the fertilizer runoff that can liberate antibiotics remaining bacteria which risk people health.

The sustainable table, the website for the film the meatrix, makes sense when the inferred that “water pollution not only damages the environment and kills wildlife, but it can also sicken and kill people”. Because there are many side effects behind the water pollution, such as: nutrients, antibiotics and hormones, making water unsafe for human consumption.

Nutrients: are composed by minerals like nitrogen and phosphorous that even when in a positive way they increase the plant growth, can lead detrimental to the plant growth called “Algal bloom”, along with the nitrogen that creates an acid water facilitating death of aquatic plants and fish.

The use of antibiotics and hormones on the industrial farms is very common or indispensable. They inject it to animals so the excrement last more inside of the big containers, provoking more bacteria in the waterways and transmitting it to humans.

Nevertheless, for those reasons I believe that water pollution is very harmful for human health. In order to prevent any type of disease or sometimes death, we should do whatever is on our hands to avoid water pollution consumption. One way that would help to promote healthier waterways is by conserving water and applies waste fertilizer to fields which will minimize their impact on local water systems.