The Meatrix
Listen to the "Meatrix" and fill in the gaps.
FARMER: Here you go, Leo!
MOOPHEUS: Psst, Leo!
LEO:
? And how did you
?
MOOPHEUS: I’m Moopheus! And I know
. Have you heard of “The Meatrix”?
LEO: The Meatrix?
MOOPHEUS:
what it is?
LEO: Okay!
MOOPHEUS: “The Meatrix” is
, Leo. It is the story we tell ourselves about
. This family farm
. Take the
and stay here in the fantasy, take the
and I’ll
!
MOOPHEUS: Welcome to the real world!
LEO: Whoah! What is this
?
MOOPHEUS: This is a
, Leo. Places like this are where most eggs,
come from.
LEO:
?
MOOPHEUS: I’ll show you! In the mid 20th century, greedy (gierig) agriculture corporations began modifying (verändern)
to maximize their profits at great cost to both humans and animals. Factory farming was born. Animals are packed
as possible.
sunlight, touch ground or
. Many can’t even turn around. These cruel (grausam) conditions cause fights and disease amongst the animals.
, the corporate machine began systematic mutilation (Verstümmelung), practices such as debeaking (Entfernung des Schnabels) chickens. And they
dosage (Dosis) of antibiotics to their feed,
these poor wretches (Kreatur) alive. This overuse of antibiotics breeds super strains (Rasse) of resistant disease-causing germs (Keim), every day we
that cannot be stopped.
LEO: Eeeuw!
?
MOOPHEUS: Twelve
of excrement (Kot)! This pollutes (verschmutzen) the
. That’s why communities (Gemeinde)
often suffer from (an etw. leiden) high levels of related (damit verbunden) sicknesses (Krankheit).
LEO : Well,
shhhhh …
MOOPHEUS: And what’s more, factory farming corporations have been destroying communities and mistreating (schlecht behandeln) their workers
. Since
over two million small hog farms
. If they
, there’ll be no real
family farms left. That is “The Meatrix”, Leo! The lie
about where our food comes from. But it’s
! There is a resistance (Widerstand).
LEO: Count me in (zählt mich dazu)! … So how do we stop them Moopheus?
MOOPHEUS:
spread the word! But it's you,
, who has the real power! Don't support the
machine! There is a world of alternatives! And I'll show you what you can do to
“The Meatrix”!?
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