Tragedy of the bunnies
1. What are Common pool resources? (Give examples) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system, whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use.
Click on “Moral of the Story”
2. Who wrote the article “Tragedy of the Commons”? Garrett Hardin
3. Explain what the tragedy of the commons is. The The tragedy of the commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, according to which individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource.
4. Explain how Elephants are a good example of the Tragedy of the Commons. Because elphants are killed for there tusks and there becoming less and less elephants and the prices on them are going up.
5. What is CAMPFIRE? rural villagers are granted title to wildlife living on their land.
Click on “Instructions” and read them
Click on “Play the Game” then click “Play” twice
6. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the first round of the Public Bunnies game? 17
7. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the 2nd round of the Public Bunnies game? 20
Click on “Play version 2”
8. How is version 2 different? version two is a little harder because u need bunnies to reproduce.
9. How many bunnies did you sell during the First round? Second round? 8,10
Everybody seems to have a better chance of winning in the Private version… WHY? because you can take your own bunnies
: http://www.bunnygame.org/
Click on “Moral of the Story”
2. Who wrote the article “Tragedy of the Commons”? Garrett Hardin
3. Explain what the tragedy of the commons is. The The tragedy of the commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, according to which individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource.
4. Explain how Elephants are a good example of the Tragedy of the Commons. Because elphants are killed for there tusks and there becoming less and less elephants and the prices on them are going up.
5. What is CAMPFIRE? rural villagers are granted title to wildlife living on their land.
Click on “Instructions” and read them
Click on “Play the Game” then click “Play” twice
6. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the first round of the Public Bunnies game? 17
7. How many bunnies did you (user) collect after the 2nd round of the Public Bunnies game? 20
Click on “Play version 2”
8. How is version 2 different? version two is a little harder because u need bunnies to reproduce.
9. How many bunnies did you sell during the First round? Second round? 8,10
Everybody seems to have a better chance of winning in the Private version… WHY? because you can take your own bunnies
: http://www.bunnygame.org/
The Meatrix
The Meatrix I
1. What is “The Meatrix”? all around you story we tell our selves about where our food comes from
2. What is a factory farm? Most meat come from a place where they keep and use animals purchase stuff
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? They die or they mutilate them or see if they are sick and pick the best ones out animal abuse
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? To fight diseases its in the food that people eat it can make them sick and it changes the chickens
5. What is happening to family farms? They are using them less and less more cause factory farms are being used more
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? They use up and breed allot of animals risen
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Tails cut off and being milked 24/7
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? It’s a chemical growth product to help them grow produce more milk
4. What happens to the calves? Fed milk with cows blood separated from mothers
5. What can be caused by this? Mad cow disease
The Meatrix II 1/2
1. At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day? 5000/five thousand
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? Injured or hurt
3. profit is the “name of the game”.
4. As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous
5. Due to the speed of the processing, what gets all over the meat? What bacteria does this substance contain? What problems can this cause? The poop ecoli make u really sick
The Meatrix 360 Interactive Go to the following section of the site (or type/paste in this link: http://www.themeatrix.com/interactive/index.html). Roll-over and click on the different parts of the scene. Read and take notes on each of the following topics that are discussed:
1. The precautionary principle if we think an activity will cause harm we should take measures to protect our selves
2. Feed cows should eat grass and silage but many are fed antibiotics and unsavory biproducts
3. Policy & legislation corporations that bring your factory farm are not only changing the way our food is produced but changing our government as well
4. Health of workers and the community at risk with factory farms public health is also affected
5. Community factory farms do not contribute to local econimies and are ruining rural communities
6. Family farms us lost 5million farmers
7. Cows hoof rot mastistis contagious diseases
8. Milk has mad cow disease
9. Processing if cant give milk sent to slaughter
10. Workers low paid and dangerous work injured
11. Downer cows dieing and just laying dead on the floor
12. Pesticides residues accumulate in the fat and tissue of the animals
13. Antibiotics fight off diseases
14. rBGH artificial growth horomones
15. agribusiness the consolidation of food productions concentrates power in the hands of less and less corporates
16. waste recycling methane digesters
17. waste over applied to fields
18. water pollution runoff from factory farms contaminate the water suppy
Write: Before viewing these videos, how much did you know about “agribusiness”? What was some new information you learned from these videos? What is the goal of these videos? Do you think these videos will change how you eat? Why/why not? it shows what will happen in the future if we dont make changes now
1. What is “The Meatrix”? all around you story we tell our selves about where our food comes from
2. What is a factory farm? Most meat come from a place where they keep and use animals purchase stuff
3. What happens to the animals on a factory farm? They die or they mutilate them or see if they are sick and pick the best ones out animal abuse
4. Why are the animals given antibiotics? What is the problem with this? To fight diseases its in the food that people eat it can make them sick and it changes the chickens
5. What is happening to family farms? They are using them less and less more cause factory farms are being used more
The Meatrix II: Revolting
1. What has happened in regards to sustainable eating in the past few years? They use up and breed allot of animals risen
2. What happens to cows in dairy factories? Tails cut off and being milked 24/7
3. What is rBGH? Why is it given to cows? It’s a chemical growth product to help them grow produce more milk
4. What happens to the calves? Fed milk with cows blood separated from mothers
5. What can be caused by this? Mad cow disease
The Meatrix II 1/2
1. At this factory, how many cows can be processed in single day? 5000/five thousand
2. What often happens to the workers in the processing factories? Injured or hurt
3. profit is the “name of the game”.
4. As a job, meat-packing is the most dangerous
5. Due to the speed of the processing, what gets all over the meat? What bacteria does this substance contain? What problems can this cause? The poop ecoli make u really sick
The Meatrix 360 Interactive Go to the following section of the site (or type/paste in this link: http://www.themeatrix.com/interactive/index.html). Roll-over and click on the different parts of the scene. Read and take notes on each of the following topics that are discussed:
1. The precautionary principle if we think an activity will cause harm we should take measures to protect our selves
2. Feed cows should eat grass and silage but many are fed antibiotics and unsavory biproducts
3. Policy & legislation corporations that bring your factory farm are not only changing the way our food is produced but changing our government as well
4. Health of workers and the community at risk with factory farms public health is also affected
5. Community factory farms do not contribute to local econimies and are ruining rural communities
6. Family farms us lost 5million farmers
7. Cows hoof rot mastistis contagious diseases
8. Milk has mad cow disease
9. Processing if cant give milk sent to slaughter
10. Workers low paid and dangerous work injured
11. Downer cows dieing and just laying dead on the floor
12. Pesticides residues accumulate in the fat and tissue of the animals
13. Antibiotics fight off diseases
14. rBGH artificial growth horomones
15. agribusiness the consolidation of food productions concentrates power in the hands of less and less corporates
16. waste recycling methane digesters
17. waste over applied to fields
18. water pollution runoff from factory farms contaminate the water suppy
Write: Before viewing these videos, how much did you know about “agribusiness”? What was some new information you learned from these videos? What is the goal of these videos? Do you think these videos will change how you eat? Why/why not? it shows what will happen in the future if we dont make changes now