The Meatrix

[Dinner]

A rather interesting spoof the the Matrix movies used to raise awareness about some of the down sides of corporate factory farms.

Personally, I don't care who owns the farms just as long as I still get choices and low prices. The family farm is pretty much dead unless they're selling something nonstandard (heirloom varieties or trying to produce exotic fruits or something) or they're doing something to capture more of the value added profits (examples are dairy men who don't just sell milk but also make artisan cheese or wheat farmers who use their crop to make artisan whiskey, etc...). Still, internet videos like this are likely to do more for their cause then a million PETA freaks throwing paint onto womens' fur coats.

http://www.meatrix1.com/ <--- The first meatrix

http://www.themeatrix2.com/ <---- The second one

http://www.moremeatrix.com/ <----- Meatrix 2.5

[Dinner]

I do find them to be misleading on several details (debeaking, tail docking, using cow parts to feed other cows [this was banned back in the 90's due to madcow fears]) but it is good propaganda.

[Dis]

and I thought this would be a porn film...

[Dinner]

http://www.themeatrix.com/inside/index.html

I do like how they have a family farm finder on their site. I doubt "family farms" are much better then corporate farms but this is how advocacy should work. They're simply trying to convince you and then local orangic food producers & sellers then make their sales pitch. That's a much better approach then the preachy brow-beating the eco-nazis usually try.

[LordShiva]

Meatrix Revolution is the best of the bunch: http://www.meatrixrevolutions.com/

[Cort Haus]

I thought this was just another of Oerdin's badly-spelled thread titles.

[General Ludd]

Re: The Meatrix

Originally posted by Oerdin
Still, internet videos like this are likely to do more for their cause then a million PETA freaks throwing paint onto womens' fur coats.

I should think so, since fur coats have nothing to do with dairy and a wheat farmers...

[Pekka]

LordShiva, you do realize, that your link adds you to the ignore list of the one who clicks it?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Pekka
LordShiva, you do realize, that your link adds you to the ignore list of the one who clicks it?

yeah I think he posted why he does that in this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...249#post4733247

[Pekka]

Dis, just for your information, I always check the url of every link before I actually click them..

[Cort Haus]

But Dis has been had so many times in the past by that one he wants others to share his experiences.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
I thought this was just another of Oerdin's badly-spelled thread titles.

Thought wrong.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Pekka
LordShiva, you do realize, that your link adds you to the ignore list of the one who clicks it?

LS is easily amused

[Zoid]

Re: The Meatrix

Originally posted by Oerdin
Still, internet videos like this are likely to do more for their cause then a million PETA freaks throwing paint onto womens' fur coats.

QFT, those kinds of antics are only good for bolstering the egos of spoiled middle class brats who think they're some kind of ****ing eco-revolutionaries...

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
I thought this was just another of Oerdin's badly-spelled thread titles.

You weren't the only one.

I remember seeing these before, wasn't too impressed then either.