"The Meatrix"

On our last meeting our professor told us about the changing cultures of hogs and farms. She told us that now a days farming and hogs are very different from the traditional ones that we used to. In order for us to further understand about this changing cultures about hogs and farms, she encourage us to watch the documentary entitled “The Meatrix”. She told us that it’s a discussing about how big corporations implements this economic farming and hogs.

I go online and search for the documentary, luckily I found a full version of it in Youtube.com. It’s an old documentary, well not that old, that is a parody of “The Matrix” movie. The main character is Leo which is a pig that lives in a normal farm. One day he is approached by Moo-pheus, and ask him if he wants to know about the true reality that he is not aware of, then Moo-pheus show Leo two pills and ask him to choose, if he choose the red pill, he will know reality and if he choose the blue pill, he will stay in the farm and will never know about the true reality. Then Leo choose the red pill to know reality. Then Moo-pheus showed him everything that he is not aware of. About the companies that is economically farm and hogs. Moo-pheus showed him how cruel is the situation of the animals, they’re confine in a really small space that they can’t even move or make a turn, the beak of the chickens are cut to avoid cockfight and the cow’s tail is cut. The cow’s newly born baby is separated from the mother, and is being fed processed milk that has the blood of the dead cows. They infect artificial hormones in the cow in able for it to produce more milk. Even though the whole documentary is cartooned, I feel a lot of mercy for those animals, because they cannot enjoy life, they are just there to give us milk and meat. The documentary also show the germs that and viruses that grows within the animals. These germs become stronger because of the everyday intake of antibiotic of the animals and because of these the germs became resistant to antibiotic. It also causes massive pollution, the feces and piss of the animals were thrown out to the rivers and it also pollutes the air, that’s why nearby communities is affected by these factors and destroyed communities.

Overall the documentary is good and enjoying to watch because of its humor and because it is cartoon, but it also opens our eyes to the cruelty to the animals and their grave condition. This documentary greatly affects me because of the reality it shows, just like Leo, my eyes were opened to the reality and cruelty of these companies.