If we are skillful, we look deeply into what we consume. Our consumer choices directly affect our health, but they also affect our planet as a whole! The foods we eat, the products we buy, the industries we support— they all are a reflection of our understanding and compassion for others. We can practice sustainability, and we can contribute to peace and wellbeing by trying to support positive industries that are free of cruelty, greed, and other injustices.
Informative Food Documentaries
These links lead to valuable studies and information on the food and animal industry. There are graphic and shocking images. I do not want to disturb anyone, but the reality of what our planet is facing is shocking and horrible and if we are able, we should aim to uncover the truth and clarity of all situations, especially if they are deceptively harmful or dangerous.
COWSPIRACY
This Netflix documentary talks about how animal agriculture is the leading cause of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental calamity.
This link leads to facts in the film so you can review them all at once.
WHAT THE HEALTH
The follow-up film to Cowspirary, watch "What the Health" to see the filmmakers expose more corruption and collusion in the food industry, including the systems and deception that's making our country sick.
Read facts from the film here.
FOOD INC.
This documentary exposes the practices of global food production that are wrapped up in multinational corporate control (placing profit > everything). We're shown the reality of large-scale food business, like poor health and safety conditions for animals and workers.
FORKS OVER KNIVES
This Netflix documentary examines the claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that cause us suffering us can be controlled, or even reversed, by consuming less animal-based and processed foods.
FOOD MATTERS
This documentary makes the claim that the over-industrialization of food production is making the nation sicker and sicker. Also looks at the proliferation of chemicals added to food touted as "healthy."
HUNGRY FOR CHANGE
This documentary looks at commercial food production and highlights little-known truths about food and nutrition that are missing from the mainstream
food discourse.
FAT, SICK, AND NEARLY DEAD
This documentary chronicles Joe Cross's mission to regain his health from a very ill state. Joe starts his journey being 100 pounds overweight with an autoimmune disease and a body full of steroids, but through a commitment to drinking only fruit and vegetable juice for 30 days, he experiences many positive changes to his wellbeing.
FAIR OAKS FARMS UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (GRAPHIC - please try to watch)
Note: There’s a veryyy long ad at the beginning of the video but please tolerate it for the information that follows
This video was the reason I stopped eating dairy products, and while it’s not a documentary, it clarified my feelings about the dairy industry much more deeply than all these other documentaries combined. Fair Oaks Farms (distributed by Coca-Cola) is responsible for horrific and consistent animal cruelty + even were recorded abusing narcotics and other drugs on site. Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) said an investigator spent three months undercover at the Prairies Edge North Barn after being hired as a calf care employee:
“In our 10 years of being undercover, we have never seen such consistent, constant abuse to a newborn baby animal,” Couto says in the video.
“Employees were observed slapping, kicking, punching, pushing, throwing and slamming calves,” ARM said in a statement. “Calves were stabbed and beaten with steel rebars, hit in the mouth and face with hard plastic milking bottles, kneed in the spine, burned in the face with hot branding irons, subjected to extreme temperatures, provided with improper nutrition, and denied medical attention.”
This Netflix documentary talks about how animal agriculture is the leading cause of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental calamity.
This link leads to facts in the film so you can review them all at once.
WHAT THE HEALTH
The follow-up film to Cowspirary, watch "What the Health" to see the filmmakers expose more corruption and collusion in the food industry, including the systems and deception that's making our country sick.
Read facts from the film here.
FOOD INC.
This documentary exposes the practices of global food production that are wrapped up in multinational corporate control (placing profit > everything). We're shown the reality of large-scale food business, like poor health and safety conditions for animals and workers.
FORKS OVER KNIVES
This Netflix documentary examines the claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that cause us suffering us can be controlled, or even reversed, by consuming less animal-based and processed foods.
FOOD MATTERS
This documentary makes the claim that the over-industrialization of food production is making the nation sicker and sicker. Also looks at the proliferation of chemicals added to food touted as "healthy."
HUNGRY FOR CHANGE
This documentary looks at commercial food production and highlights little-known truths about food and nutrition that are missing from the mainstream
food discourse.
FAT, SICK, AND NEARLY DEAD
This documentary chronicles Joe Cross's mission to regain his health from a very ill state. Joe starts his journey being 100 pounds overweight with an autoimmune disease and a body full of steroids, but through a commitment to drinking only fruit and vegetable juice for 30 days, he experiences many positive changes to his wellbeing.
FAIR OAKS FARMS UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (GRAPHIC - please try to watch)
Note: There’s a veryyy long ad at the beginning of the video but please tolerate it for the information that follows
This video was the reason I stopped eating dairy products, and while it’s not a documentary, it clarified my feelings about the dairy industry much more deeply than all these other documentaries combined. Fair Oaks Farms (distributed by Coca-Cola) is responsible for horrific and consistent animal cruelty + even were recorded abusing narcotics and other drugs on site. Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) said an investigator spent three months undercover at the Prairies Edge North Barn after being hired as a calf care employee:
“In our 10 years of being undercover, we have never seen such consistent, constant abuse to a newborn baby animal,” Couto says in the video.
“Employees were observed slapping, kicking, punching, pushing, throwing and slamming calves,” ARM said in a statement. “Calves were stabbed and beaten with steel rebars, hit in the mouth and face with hard plastic milking bottles, kneed in the spine, burned in the face with hot branding irons, subjected to extreme temperatures, provided with improper nutrition, and denied medical attention.”