Worksheet :THE MEATRIX

1. What food does factory farming produce? Circle the correct answer(s)

a) vegetables

b) eggs

c) milk

d) meat

e) fruit

f) fish

2. When was the factory farming born? ..........................................................................

3. Who was it created by? ..................................................................................................

4. Why was factory farming created?

a) to feed the poor

b) to minimize profit

c) to protect the environment

d) to maximize profit

5. How are the animals treated in these farms? Circle the correct answer(s)

a) they never touch ground

b) they are protected from the cold air

c) some of them can’t turn around

d) they never see any sunlight

e) they are protected from the sunlight

f) some music is played for them to relax

g) they are well fed

h) they are packed as closely together as possible

i) they never get any fresh air

6. What do such conditions cause among animals?

a) fights

b) productivity

c) diseases

d) deaths

e) stress

7. To stop the chicken fighting and hurting themselves, the corporations turn to systematic mutilations such as........................................................

8. and to fight diseases from spreading the machines add .............................to their feed.

9. As a consequence we breed some super strains of disease causing germs so every day we get close to an .............................................................................................(5 words)

10. Amount of excrement produced by factory farming each year :.........................

11. The excrement pollute

a) the soil

b) the air

c) the ground water

12. Communities living near factory farms are not at risk. Circle the correct answer

a) wrong

b) right

13. Factory farming is a threat to independent family farms

a) wrong

b) right

14. Since ................................. 2 million small hog farms have disappeared

Do you know what foot and mouth disease is ? 
In French we say "fièvre aphteuse"
The British farmers are in trouble with the virus . Indeed in Surrey two cases have been reported so far and the  authorities  have ordered the cull of the cattle in the infected area.  
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