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I'm a vegetarian and thought this was highly patronizing


Went with a friend because the trailer looked so positive and uplifting.

It was totally misleading and a waste of time.

First of all, if you're going to make a movie about "Unity", you should offer some solutions and answers, especially if it's a documentary.

The film presents examples of how we human beings treat animals and each other badly. It states it's the cause of wars. And if we would treat each other better, including animals, and would stop eating meat, the world would be better.

This is so simplistic, it's not even funny.

As somebody who's done over 3 years of psychotherapy for trauma reasons, I was very disappointed to not watch the filmmaker at any point examine the ORIGINS of WHY we get angry at each other, as mostly what angers us in somebody else is something we're annoyed at in ourselves (90% of the time), it's all about repressed emotions which create a need to control.

It would also be interesting to explore WHY human beings tend to be greedy and 'follow the pack'. The psychology behind it, the social conditioning. But that's never approached in this movie.

The whole agenda seems to be proving that we'd all be much better off if we stop eating meat. The most advanced tribes and spiritual thinkers were vegetarians/vegans, the filmmaker defends. He alleges that eating meat is the cause for most sickness. Is it also the cause for our anger, greed, etc?

I'm a vegetarian and I thought this film was so pretentious. And pointless, really.

You're going to make a movie to PROVE that humans treat each other badly, that we treat animals badly. You're going to use the most graphic images to prove this, like we don't know it all exists? Yes it IS urgent to stop these behaviors, but they are LEARNED behaviors and they do not change just by watching depressing images. They change when people LEARN the causes behind their behaviors, which gives them a clearer understanding of what makes them react the way they do, so they can then correct it and leave more peaceful lives, consequently treating everything and everyone around them better - including themselves.


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