Kudos to the folks fighting agro-industry. This is a fantastic use of the web, technology and humor to explain complex issue to young hip urban voters. This is the best flash movie and political use of technology that I have seen in a long time. You should check it out. (It is fun) You must watch the Meatrix. I would also encourage other bloggers to promote the site.
The Meatrix is a two-minute flash animation that spoofs the popular Matrix movies. But instead of Keanu Reaves, the Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm ... he thinks. Leo is approached by a wise and mysterious cow, Moopheus, who shows Leo the truth about modern farming -- the truth about the Meatrix!
The film describes the problems with factory farming and offers viewers a solution - the final page of the flash directs viewers to the Eat Well Guide, a national online directory of sustainably-raised
meat, which is available at http://www.eatwellguide.org
The action page also highlights KAW's action alert on antibiotic phaseout Bills in both the House and Senate, as well as links to Farm Aid, the GRACE Factory Farm Project, Public Citizen and other groups working on the factory farm/sustainable agriculture issue. If you like the Meatrix and/or the Eat Well Guide, we only
ask for one thing in return - that you send the links to everyone you know! Enjoy the show!
A collaboration of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) and Free Range Graphics
This is a wonderful campaign.
