what is the Meatrix

[laseranimal]

http://www.themeatrix.com/

[Plakespear]

Almost enough to make me want to become a vegetarian.

[El Kabong]

This is from page 2 of the Week in Review from this past Sunday, seems pretty relevant:


Compassionate Cannibalism
The philosopher Colin McGinn, writing in Think magazine, asks readers to look at "The Matrix" movies from the machines' point of view. Excerpts follow:

What is known is that it was the humans who "scorched the sky," blocking out the sun's rays, in an attempt at machine genocide — since the machines needed solar power to survive. In response and retaliation the machines subdued the humans and made them into sources of energy — batteries, in effect. Each human now floats in a warm and womblike environment, while the machines feed in essential nutrients, in exchange for the energy they need. But this is no wretched slave camp; it is idyllic, in its way. . . . The machines need to factory farm the humans, as a direct result of the humans trying to exterminate the machines, but they do so as painlessly as possible. Considering the way the humans used to treat their own factory farm — their own fuel cells — the machines are models of caring livestock husbandry.

[truth]

Whoa.

[powderfarmer]

Wow, Well, I still will eat meat all the time, never gonna stop, but I think the real message is keep FAMILY FARMS alive. I grew up on one, actually one of the last ones in the the state, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. AS jackson once said "The strength of this country is dependent on the independent family farm" and that was way back in the day.

[snowsprite]

Yes

[vinzclortho]

In Fast Food Nation, there is a chapter about a family farm in....Colorado I think, where they still have free roaming, grass eating water drinking steer. One of the ranch owner's sons says something to the effect of "people who eat steak aren't eating real honest-ta-goodness steaks, they don't even taste like real steak." Implying that the natural methods they using instead of mass-produced, dead cat and dog and chicken and other cows-fed steer methods of the major steak producers makes a serious difference. I'll see if I can find the name of the company.

Definitely sounds like family farms instead of massive agriculture companies is the way to go. Read the book and you'll never eat McDonald's again.

[CaddyDaddy77]

One of the family owned Colorado ranches is just north of Hermosa, James Ranch. For those familiar with the area, it's where you will usually see the large herds of elk in hte winter months on the way to DMR or Silverton.
http://wsare.usu.edu/sare2000/jpg/121.jpg

Related Article,
http://wsare.usu.edu/sare2000/120.htm