Watching the meatrix trilogy and the other footage

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Assignment:

1. After watching the Meatrix trilogy and the other footage (see power point or go here - please comment on the rise of the factory farming 'machine.

a) How has this happened?

b) List and comment on some of the hazards and disadvantages of this type of farming? (Here a number of topics that you can comment on: soil, land availability for other types of farming, water, pollution, waste-poop, dead animals etc... treatment of animals, growing food for these factories instead of people, treatment of workers, sustainability...... etc.)

c) List and comment on some of the advantages.

d) What effect is this having on the family farm?

e) List 2 things that you learned from this assignment and how it affected you.

2. Now that you have learned a bit about types of farming, what are your choices as a consumer? If you don't want to support factory farms, what are some of your other choices? (I try to buy from local farms that I know how the meat is raised and taken care of when I am able to. I am to trying to buy less packaged goods to decrease our intake of GMFs.) The good news is, there ARE choices nowadays - we just have to be aware of what they are!

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