DBPacific
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So true...only after this vid I saw the cowspiracy vid is available on NetFlix...I was thinking "oh, sh#t...I won't be able to eat anyting!
The similar names were too coincidental and I looked it up. The same guy made them both
Exactly, and unfortunately the vegans who appear in media and social platforms like this tend to be the type to say "if you aren't vegan in the way I want you to be, nothing you do matters." Every vegan I've actually met understands it's a personal choice and openly condemn the ones who try and force people to veganism.I haven't watched it yet, despite having a couple opportunities because I feared it would be sensationalism, get debunked in articles and then get labelled as fake. Which is unfortunate because if you lie, even just grossly embellish reality, it ruins the efforts to advance the changes we really need.
That take is from what I'm reading from you guys, but if it's a push to be a vegan, and it sounds like there's a few other people who get website space to voice that opinion on other platforms, I think it's worth noting there's strong evidence that human evolution really began to take off when our species started cooking meat. I have no problem with vegans, but they are a very small minority and if your approach to sustainability is to tell everyone eating meat is wrong, you're gonna have a long road ahead of you and are actually doing more harm than good.
Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, new book argues
“You are what you eat.” Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?
Yes, says Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, who argues in a new book that the invention of cooking — even more than agriculture, the eating of meat, or the advent of tools — is what led to the rise of humanity.
Wrangham’s book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” is published today by Basic Books. In it, he makes the case that the ability to harness fire and cook food allowed the brain to grow and the digestive tract to shrink, giving rise to our ancestor Homo erectus some 1.8 million years ago.
Yes, choosing sustainable food options helps, and yes, the broad livestock and commercial fishing industries are harmful and need tons of overhaul. But veganism is not, cannot, and will never be the only option. Beyond the scientific inaccuracies and sensationalism, my greatest concern with this film is how much his commentary belittled and cast off other initiatives as worthless, and the number of people who might watch it and listen.
It is definitely not a must watch