Great Documentaries about Food and Lifestyle Choices
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Food choices and their impact on health, animals, and the environment
In this article, you will find my list of suggested documentaries to learn more about the impact of meat eating on health, the environment, animal welfare, and food insecurity.
For example, now more than ever before, athletes are proving that peak performance can be achieved without consuming animal products. The 2018 documentary The Game Changers, produced by Academy Award-winning director James Cameron, tackles this issue in depth.
The movie Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, will open your eyes, and your heart, to the suffering of animals caused by our modern agricultural practices.
Furthermore, according to the world’s leading climate scientists, radical changes must be made immediately to prevent global warming of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Even half a degree more than this will significantly increase the risk of extreme heat, poverty, and natural disasters for millions of people around the world.
The production of livestock for food around the world is responsible for approximately 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to contributing to land and water pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and acid rain. It’s also a major driver of global warming.
Finally, negative stories about the environment in the media can leave us all feeling a little bit powerless, but there are solutions and these documentaries will motivate you to take action. They will also empower you to take your health into your own hands by making better food choices.
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Must-See Documentaries
Cowspiracy, The Sustainability Secret
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Eating
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In Defense of Food
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Forks over Knives
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Fat sick and nearly Dead
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Food Matters
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Hungry for Change
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Earthlings
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What the Health
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Food Inc.
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Fed Up
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Vegucated
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Eating our way to Extinction
The Game Changers
A life on Our planet
Hogwood
Seaspiracy
Kiss the ground
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In conclusion, I hope that my selection of suggested documentaries will motivate you to learn a bit more about the food on your table, more specifically; how it affects your health, the environment, animals (wild and farmed), and other populations around the world.
Once you see the big picture, it’s much easier to let go of old habits, and old traditions. In his documentary A life on our planet, David Attenborough concludes: “We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.” Are you motivated to make a change as of today? How about a plant-based recipe for breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner?
Click here to read my article about interesting book suggestions to learn more about nutrition and the benefits of eating more plants.