The Meatrix is real

Every once and a while someone makes a good and thought provoking point about eating meat that makes you think that maybe vegetarians aren't crazy communist hippies after all.

"The Meatrix" falls into this category, but without the how dare you eat anything with a shadow mentality. Actually it asserts that there is nothing wrong with eating meat, but there is something very wrong with treating those animals cruelly and pumping them full of dangerous additives.

"The Meatrix" is a series of flash cartoons made by Free Range Studios that parody the Matrix movies. For instance, Morpheus is now a wise cow named Moopheus that opens up a young pigs eyes (Leo instead of Neo) to the perverse and horrifying realities of the American meat industry.

The scary thing is that everything stated in the flash cartoons is true. I've heard most of the accusations in the Meatrix before, and it should not really surprise anyone that the big business of the meat industry values their profit over sanitary conditions for the animals and healthy products for us to eat.

But all is not lost: there is still hope for a world with a plausible balance between humane treatment for animals and healthier foods for humans. The site states many ways that the individual can make a difference, such as choosing to buy organic foods and supporting smaller local farms that sell produce and meat at farmer's markets.



Links worth watching:

The Meatrix is real

The Meatrix 1, 2 and 2 1/2 films

Free Range Studios

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