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This Movie was Disappointing

posted 11 years ago by Silverdude2167
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The movie is not about a challenge. It is trying to shame people into becoming Vegan.

I was hoping it would be a movie that introduces a few people and follows them for 6 weeks of attempting a Vegan. Instead it was a movie that introduces 3 people and uses the middle 45 min of the movie to tell you why being anything other than a Vegan is wrong.

Numerous why meat is bad movies exists and have been done much better than this film. I was hoping for something different and was disappointed.

Also cows are not a leading cause of global warming, if a Vegan is claiming that cows are causing global warming, does that also mean that the Vegan wants us to kill all the cows? So they stop adding methane to the atmosphere?

Finally, you can not claim that by becoming a Vegan you will be in good company and procede to list a bunch of Vegetarians. Vegans are as different from Vegetarians as Vegetarians are from people who eat meat, don't associate the two groups of people.

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[–] leisasd 11 years ago

I agree. They want to shame us into believing not just that being anything other than vegan is wrong, but being anything other than extreme farm animal rights activists are wrong. The movie was nothing like what the name implied - more political propaganda than real education.

[–] andsoitgoes_42 11 years ago

Political propaganda?

The hell?

Are you telling me you think that how animals raised for food/dairy are treated properly? That somehow they only showed a few places where animals are mistreated, but the rest of the farms are in some way magically different?

They aren't.

Animals are treated with no regard for any pain they experience and are tortured from birth to their ultimate death.

Now I'm not a vegan, I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I understand the situation I'm putting myself in by even consuming dairy, so I try and go as responsible as I can whenever I can.

But I'm not fooling myself, I know where everything comes from, but I also know that unless you are dealing with Bob and Jane's farm with 10 cows and 50 chickens that all animals are treated like absolute crap. No political BS is needed to prove that.

Now as to the whole argument about animals, cows especially, causing issues with methane production and solving it... How? Well the only reason we have so many damn animals producing so much damn methane is because so many damn people eat it.

If people cut down on their consumption on a regular basis, animals would not have to be bred to the huge extent that they are. Less energy to operate these production plants, less waste, etc. etc. etc.

But people don't get it. Clearly you don't. How any person can look at our overwhelming stupidity in how we interact with the world to feed ourselves with meat and dairy and not think it's an issue is baffling.

Just from a humane standpoint, take any of the environmental aspects out of it, just WHY? It makes no sense.

[–] AbhiMathews 9 years ago

Yes, livestock are a leading cause of global warming, http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cow-emissions-more-damaging-to-planet-than-co2-from-cars-427843.html

The better solution is to stop breeding so many of them. Let the ones currently alive (due to our artificial expansion of their population) live their lives out, but there's no need for more.

[–] baybeekaytee 9 years ago

I do agree. I watched the movie believing it would follow a few people around making different choices, showing the struggles they face etc. That's what I was hoping for

[–] rmontro 8 years ago

The synopsis describes this movie as light hearted, and at times humorous. Not sure I can agree with that considering the emphasis on animal cruelty and suffering. I thought this movie was going to be about the health benefits of eating vegan. I agree it was a little disappointing that it took the darker turn.