Why Vegan
Why Vegan
Veganism:
Making the choice to sustain life without the need or use of animal products.
Why VEgan?
millions of people have CHOSEn to switch to a plant-based lifestyle for many different reasons. For some, it comes from learning the harsh truths of how animals are treated in the animal AGRICULTURE industry. For others, it comes through learning the truth of how damaging a meat based diet can be to human health. For others still, there is the truth of how the meat INDUSTRY is the single largest contributor to the destruction of our planet and the animals we share our home with.
“Veganism starts with having morals STRONGER than your TASTE-BUDS.”
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Learning more about the benefits of a plant-based diet was the CATALYST for change in my life. The following documentaries played a massive role in my transition to a vegan lifestyle and i hope they will have the same effect on you.
Health
Health
health
Studies have shown a plant based diet combined with an active lifestyle is the most effective way to reverse some of the most damaging conditions while helping the body operate the most efficiently.
Vegucated
Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture that make them wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. This entertaining documentary showcases the rapid and at times comedic evolution of three people who discover they can change the world one bite at a time.
Forks Over Knives
Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the chronic diseases that afflict us can be controlled or even reversed by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. The film follows everyday Americans with chronic conditions as they seek to reduce their dependence on medications and learn to use a whole-food, plant-based diet to regain control over their health and their lives.
Fat Sick & Nearly Dead
Morbidly obese and stricken with an autoimmune disease, a man endeavors to drink only fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days in an effort to lose weight and reclaim his health.
What the Health
What the Health exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.
Hungry For Change
Filmmakers James Colquhoun, Laurentine Ten Bosch and Carlo Ledesma expose the diet industry's deceptive strategies designed to keep people from losing and keeping off weight.
The Game Changers
The Game Changers tells the story of James Wilks — elite special forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter — as he travels the world on a quest for the truth behind the world's most dangerous myth: that meat is necessary for protein, strength and optimal health. Meeting elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes, what James discovers permanently changes his relationship with food and his definition of true strength.
Animals
Animals
Animals
Removing yourself from the unthinkably cruel system of animal imprisonment, torture, and murder is the best way you show animals you truly love and care about them.
Dominion
Focusing on the legal, industry-standard practices that occur all over the world, the film questions the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom, advocating not for minor improvements to their welfare but for a deeper conversation about our right to exploit those we deem inferior to ourselves.
Peaceable Kingdom
A documentary released in 2009 which relates the personal transformation of farmers as they reexamine their relationship to animals. The movie also tells the story of two animal rescues.
Live and Let Live
Live and Let Live is a feature documentary examining our relationship with animals, the history of veganism and the ethical, environmental and health reasons that move people to go vegan.
Eating Animals
A documentary examining the environmental, economic and public health consequences of factory farming. Topics include animal rights, pollution and the use of antibiotics and hormones.
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability
ENVIRONMENTAL Sustainability
Veganism is the best thing any individual can do to help reduce our IMPACT on the ENVIRONMENT.
Cowspiracy
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
Earthlings
EARTHLINGS is a 2005 American documentary film about humankind's total dependence on animals for economic purposes. Presented in five chapters (pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research) the film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, featuring music by Moby, and was written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson.
Okja
A gentle giant and the girl who raised her are caught in the crossfire between animal activism, corporate greed and scientific ethics.
Carnage
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.