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Posted by Films For Action on Jan. 8, 2008

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Take the red pill and watch the critically-acclaimed, award-winning first episode of The Meatrix Trilogy. Join Meo as he goes on a journey into the "real world" to see the horrific truth of what’s really going on with the food we eat today. Topics covered are industrial agriculture, indecent dairy conditions, factory farm pollution, animal cruelty and the horrors of meat processing.

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