Food Choices (1080p) FULL MOVIE - Documentary, Health, Diet

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faces a lot of problems but in some

parts of the world people live in a time

of over consumption abundance of food

and an eagerness to be fit and healthy

the supermarket is overflowing with

options but despite that we are poorly

advised in nutrition and easily

vulnerable to misinformation

unreliable slogans inaccurate Health

promises and colorful tempting packages

are cluttering our relationship with

food and risking our well-being we are

bombarded by conflicting information

about food diets and supplements so how

can we know what's best for us which

foods improve health and which ones can

potentially promote disease I have

struggled with these questions for a

long time and it has been a challenge to

find a diet that would help me achieve

my health goals after trying several

yoyo diets over the years I decided to

change my Lifestyle by simply

incorporating lots of plant-based Foods

into my diet so far it has worked for me

I lost 50 pounds but my blood pressure

blood sugar and cholesterol under

control and overall felt really good but

it was a work in progress and I still

had many questions and concerns about

nutrition and living this plant-based

lifestyle for the long run

especially now with a recent addition to

our family I felt that I really needed

to find answers so I decided to go on a

journey to search for the truth and to

uncover many of the myths surrounding

food for three years I traveled across

the country and interviewed the world's

top authorities on the subject as well

as people that had experienced amazing

life-changing benefits through healthy

eating

or to explore the idea of what is the

healthiest and most sustainable diet for

ourselves future generations and our

planet

so join me on this journey of shocking

discoveries and buckle up because what

you're about to learn might forever

change the way you look at the food on

your plate

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well there's a lot of difference of

opinion about it and there are there's a

faction of people who insist that there

are different diets for different people

but I think that the evidence is fairly

clear that that's not true and there

really is an appropriate diet for humans

just like there's a best diet for cats

dogs elephants and any other mammal and

the best diet for humans is one that is

plant-based almost all calories coming

from four principal food groups fruit

vegetables whole grains and legumes it's

low in fat high in fiber not very much

processed food none is great but in

today's world I don't know how realistic

that is what we have seen in nutrition

for many many years

I must say is a lot of confusion you go

and Survey people you know outside of

the science and ask them what do they

think about nutrition is and you can

hear all kinds of comments I eat this I

eat that and this is good and this is

not good there's also confusion in the

professions you know medical doctors are

not trained in this field and there's

confusion in my own field you know

biomedical research we don't get an

opportunity

to tell you know the real science that I

think the way it should be told because

we're overwhelmed

with the corporate sector trying to sell

stuff we are living in extreme times

where we have 27 of people dying of

heart disease 25 of cancer 10 of stroke

four or five percent from diabetes the

same number for Alzheimer's I mean these

are in many many cases diseases of

nutritional ignorance and diseases that

are all based on our lifestyle choices

there are a lot of different dietary

theories out there but I think one fact

is kind of indisputable having a diet

that is rich in whole plant-based Foods

is truly a great way to get you to Good

Health everywhere I go around the world

he's not a single person I've met that

doesn't know that fruits and vegetables

are good for them

we all know it

it's not about the knowing it's about

the doing there was a time when there

was no heart disease no colon cancer no

breast cancer no multiple sclerosis no

inflammatory arthritis of course these

days in Asia the middle east in Central

America and around the world people have

become rich they have given up much of

their starch and they replaced it with

meat and dairy throughout history rich

people the royalties the Pharaohs the

Queens the Kings the priests the priests

that people could afford to eat the meat

they had artery disease they had obesity

they were sick now these changed except

for the number of kings and queens

living in the world

a question kept coming to my mind if

plant foods are so good for us and the

consumption of animal products in excess

appears to do us harm how about the

ancient populations of people that

survived on diets based off mostly meat

eggs in Dairy and appeared to be healthy

after all aren't we known for being

hunter-gatherers

all large successful populations of

people have gotten the bulk of their

calories from starch rice corn potatoes

and other starches Breads and so on

particularly when you live near the

equator As you move north and south in

Latitude then you end up eating more

animal foods and if you get far north

like for example the Inuit Eskimos they

are largely carnivores because that's

what's available but that's a small

population of people that exists on the

extremes of the environment

that's the exception not the rule

we have become the most successful

species on this planet no one comes

close to us we share it with animals and

insects and microbes and plants but

we're number one and the way we got to

number one was all about survival we see

in color I believe because fruits and

vegetables are colorful our hand is

perfectly designed to pick Forge grab

dig peel and feed ourselves fruits

vegetables nuts beans and seeds plant

food food made by Mother Nature this

idea that where hunter-gatherers

is true we're hunter gatherers but

mostly we've been gatherers one of the

problems has to do with sexism it has to

do with the fact that the gatherers

or grandparents

women and children the hunters were men

and they got the glory the people who

really provided the bulk of the calories

for most of the civilizations through

all of verifiable human history have

been the women children and grandparents

even when I began considering the idea

of eating mostly a plant-based diet I

was still haunted with many questions

how was I going to be able to live

without animal Foods I didn't want to

become nutrient deficient and how about

things like protein calcium and Omega-3s

in my head I always Associated these

nutrients with animal Foods I needed to

find out if those were valid concerns or

simply myths

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it's almost impossible to design a

protein deficient diet surrounding you

know a variety of whole plant foods but

what people need to know is there's

never been a case of protein deficiency

ever described in the world literature

on any natural diet that met the

sufficient amount of calories you know

back to 1839 when protein was discovered

it had this incredible

reverence associated with it and it just

gained traction but the evidence is very

clear that humans do not need to eat a

lot of protein and when they do they get

a lot of health problems as a result I

mean human protein needs are just tiny

percentage of calories maybe two and a

half three percent of calories and if

you were to eat the lowest protein foods

in the Plant World which would be foods

like rice here at eight or nine percent

protein so you're not going to become

protein deficient but the promoters of

the low carb diets the promoters of the

sports drinks the food bars and all

these kinds of things insist and Market

to the public that they absolutely must

have more protein it's just not true in

practical sense from reality the way we

humans operate we get ideal levels of

protein if we just get it from plants

when we consume animal foods to get that

protein if you will

what we're actually doing we're

displacing the consumption of those

foods that matter

and the foods that matter are plants the

amount of animal protein we eat is the

problem you know in rural China and

Japanese populations healthier places in

the world people eat a little bit of

animal protein but for economic reasons

it's very very tiny they use one little

piece of meat they slice it up and it

Seasons a dish for eight people here in

this country we have one gargantuan

piece of meat we put it on a plate with

a tiny little bit of vegetables we call

that a meal the problem is that when you

eat too much protein of any type you

stretch your kidneys you stress your

liver and when it's animal protein you

increase your risk of cancer and we see

cancer is geographically distributed the

more animal food consumed in the society

the more cancer more heart disease you

get and it's amazing all the animals

that we choose in this country to eat

for protein and calcium

are vegetarian animals where's the logic

in that and I always like to remind you

also when you're eating your garbage you

never ask where am I getting my protein

in my calcium it's only when you come

into the healthy world that all of a

sudden you're concerned with where it's

coming from we're in the midst of this

amazing protein push everywhere you look

the message is clear protein protein

protein this idea that you need massive

amounts of protein to Simply breathe air

in and out of your lungs you know and to

be healthy or to perform as an athlete

prior to making this dietary change like

my main nutritional strategy in a day

was

to see how many grams of protein I could

get in like that was that the only

calculations I ever really did I didn't

count calories I didn't count anything

was just like trying to get in

exorbitant amounts of grams of protein

in my day just because there are grams

of protein on the nutritional content of

something doesn't mean that your body

can actually process all of those grams

protein does some other things it

elevates blood cholesterol levels which

most people have not heard of but that's

about a hundred years old that idea and

been repeated several times but always

ignored animal protein starts heart

disease it increases things like the

production of so-called free radicals

which are those highly reactive

molecules that actually stimulate aging

and encourages cancer formation it also

stimulates the production of the wrong

kind of hormones it tends to increase

the level of estrogens for example in

women which in turn is associated with

breast cancer

it changes the microfluor in our

intestine when we're consuming too much

protein

but it does all these things there's

lots of things we have to worry about in

the American diet

fiber 97 of Americans don't reach the

daily minimum intake of fiber 98 of

Americans don't reach a daily minimum

intake of potassium for example the

nutrients of concern for most Americans

are the ones that are found in plant

Foods mostly fruits and vegetables and

the ones that we're getting too much of

in excess whether it's calories sodium

cholesterol saturated fat or found in

processed foods and animal Foods in

general

many people decide they want to improve

their health by staying away from red

meat and instead they begin consuming

more white Meats like chicken turkey and

fish I always wondered if certain types

of meats were really better than others

people think that they're going to be

healthy by giving up red meat and

instead eating poultry and fish

stop and think about this for a minute

what are meat poultry and fish

they're muscles of animals in one case

they happen to move a limb another case

they flap a wing in another case they

wiggle a tail they're the same

high fat high protein high cholesterol

no dietary fiber high on the food chain

so heavily polluted from the standpoint

of the effect of the protein and fat and

those foods and their effect on health

it really doesn't matter it's dose

dependent not type dependent so fish is

not healthier in many cases it has more

fat than chicken and pork but you have

other issues with fish too in the ocean

you have this whole hierarchy of things

eating things that eat things that eat

things and so you concentrate all the

pollutants in the ocean including

mercury and fish like tuna that are some

of the favorite that we like to eat so

fish is really not healthier don't kid

yourself in thinking that if you're

eating fish and chicken you can eat more

of it because one thing in common with

these healthy populations around the

world that do eat a little bit of animal

food whatever type they're choosing it's

really a tiny tiny percentage of what

they're eating in the diet so fish

doesn't get a free pass a lot of people

are being told to eat fish by

cardiologists or to take fish oil that's

the other thing by cardiologists who say

that if you do that you'll increase your

HDL cholesterol and here's the problem

with that

it's true by the way it just doesn't

make any difference studies are pretty

clear that in populations with very low

incidence of heart disease total

cholesterol LDL cholesterol and HDL

cholesterol are very very low so that's

the wrong reason to eat fish or to take

fish oil capsules is to increase your

HDL cholesterol work on getting all your

cholesterol low

since I was a kid I always heard that

milk was a very important food and I

consumed a lot of it I also loved all

kinds of dairy products cheeses Butters

ice creams yogurts you name it I had it

all

maybe many years to begin realizing that

perhaps that was not such a great idea

but I still wondered how about calcium

would I be able to get enough of it from

plants

well we have a lot of calcium and dairy

but it's never been a problem to have

too low calcium in a diet and orange has

110 milligrams of calcium all right so

if you're trying to take in 1500

milligrams a day that doesn't sound like

so much but when you're only trying to

get 500 it sounds pretty good as a

percentage of your daily intake milk is

a healthy food for calves for baby cows

I mean milk is for babies literally

we're the only species that drinks milk

of another species and then the only

species that drinks milk after weaning

into adulthood why is milk associated

with increased prostate cancer risk for

example well what is milk milk is a

cocktail of growth hormones to get a

little bovine animal who's you know

who's susceptible to predation out on

the African Savannah to you know put on

a few hundred pounds in a few months

right because they don't eaten by a lion

and so it's engine engineered is this

growth fluid for rapid growth which is

great if you're a little baby cow but if

you're an adult person

um those that extra growth hormones is

not a good thing you know one of the

hardest things for people to give up is

dairy and they're sometimes really

resistant to it so one of the things I

tell people is well why don't you look

at the evidence and then decide because

I've always said taking control of your

health is not doing what I say instead

of what other people say taking control

of your health is looking at the

information and making a conscious

choice about what you want to do dairy

products I describe as liquid meat and

basically just like red meat high fat

high cholesterol no fiber in fact they

may be worse than meat the casein that

they use to bind the cheese is so full

of chemicals the chemicals are as

addictive as heroin that we don't have

four stomachs like a baby calf and

unfortunately it is in everything they

put cow secretions I know you have other

names for it Dairy butter ice cream

cheese but it's really breast milk from

a cow the only reason people think we

need actually calcium is because a few

decades ago scientists they raised the

bar on how much calcium we needed

that in turn was influenced by the dairy

industry what they're really saying is

we're not drinking enough milk

because that's what the dairy industry

wants us to say

when in reality if you look at the

relationship between how much calcium

that people consume in different

societies as it relates to let's say

osteoporosis the bone disease the higher

the calcium intake

the higher the risk of osteoporosis no

one wants to hear that

that's what the data show

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what goes on inside an egg during

incubation

well after a week the eye shows up

clearly in the embryo as the first

external organ to develop

gestation is much further Advanced at 10

days

the chick's outline is more pronounced

as other organs begin to form

at 14 days you can see the shape of the

chick the contents of the egg provide

nourishment during the incubation period

most people can't imagine starting their

day without eggs it's the favorite

breakfast option around the world and

eggs make their way everywhere in Brad's

cakes candies dressings and even drinks

eggs have played an important role in

our foraging ancestors nutrition and

survival

overall eggs are regarded as a healthy

food rich in protein minerals and fats

but in today's world are eggs really a

good food choice I was shocked to

discover the mounting amount of

scientific evidence showing that eggs

and especially commercial eggs might not

be the healthy food that we all once

fought it to be

eggs are the most concentrated source of

dietary cholesterol in the average

person's diet and dietary cholesterol

can lead to an increase in blood

cholesterol levels which is a leading

risk factor for our number one killer of

men and women heart disease eggs have a

different have kind of the same issue as

as dairy in some ways because commercial

eggs

are are from chickens that are

commercially raised so if you ever knew

how they were raised it's horrible you

would never go near it one so that's

it's disgusting but aside from the

disgustingness of it commercial chickens

are fed antibiotics to keep them bigger

makes them bigger cephalosporin to be

specific

they are fed feed that's usually corn

and soy genetically modified so BT toxin

corn uh Roundup Ready corn Roundup Ready

soy so those are affecting again the

bacteria in the microbiome of the

chicken and then of you because you're

ingesting it it's bioaccumulative a

commercial chicken egg is mostly omega-6

it's not omega-3 so it's a horrible

polyunsaturated profile and that's you

know the least of the problems because

like I said you've got the residue from

glyphosate and BT Toxin and pesticides

the next nutrients on my list were

omega-3 fatty acids who hasn't heard

about fish oil capsules and they're

supposedly great health benefits there

seems to be a lot of controversy on this

topic I was curious to find out how much

of these fats we needed to stay healthy

and how would someone get them if they

didn't eat fish

a lot of these silly dietary fads become

an industry there's a lot of money to be

made making products that cater to them

and that sort of thing and I'm convinced

that's the omega-3 thing okay so here's

the deal there are two essential fatty

acids Omega-3s and sixes all the rest of

them your body synthesizes essential

means must come from food

all right so we find omega-3 fatty acids

in foods like seafood walnuts flax seeds

some soy all right and then we find

omega-6 fatty acids in land animals

chicken pork beef and polyunsaturated

vegetable oils all right so you can see

what our problem is we eat a lot of

omega-6 fatty acids and in fact the

ratio of Omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids

used to be between one to one and one to

four

you know what it is today between 1 to

25 and 1 to 30.

so this has led a lot of people to say

my gosh this is so out of whack omega-6

is up here omega-3 is down here maybe

what we ought to do is take omega-3

fatty acid pills fish oil pills and

encourage Fish Feeding to get that

omega-3 back up to that ratio that we

have been accustomed to as a population

okay it does there's no evidence that it

works in fact a large meta-analysis that

looked at 89 studies showed that it

didn't make any difference in health

outcomes but besides that wouldn't it be

better to lower the omega-6 fatty acid

in the diet

stop eating all those land animals stop

consuming all that plant oil

and the ratio goes back to normal

so let's not supplement with omega-3

let's ratchet down omega-6 and we end up

where we need to be there's no money in

the decreasing omega-6 there's a lot of

money in selling people omega-3 pills

and getting them to eat fish in fact

when you take a supplements Omega-3s

we've got some really good evidence now

summarizing a lot of studies the higher

the use of Omega-3s the higher is the

risk from type 2 diabetes and even

there's evidence that cancer goes up too

it does exactly the opposite what people

think it does

is disgusting it's one of those those

ridiculous things early on there was

Data suggesting that it might be

beneficial but now the prepondence of

evidence is that fish oil is useless so

there's this billion dollar industry

that's basically selling people fish oil

as snake oil

for many guys eating a diet rich in meat

is seen as a reflection of their manhood

and associated with being strong and

manly I felt the same way for most of my

life so I was really surprised to come

across studies that showed that such a

diet might actually have the contrary

effect in the long run

here they are eating a bait that's going

to make a macho right

has the opposite effect

that's not very very much so to have

erectile dysfunction it's all about

blood flow they even say it in the

Cialis and Viagra commercials so if your

arteries are clogged with cheese and

dairy and meat and bacon and all this

what's the main vein come on

it's it's simple science man it's

unquestionable that that men think that

they have to eat a lot of protein and

that eating a plant-based diet may not

be really masculine but I'll tell you

what's really not masculine is erectile

dysfunction if you want to be virile if

you want to have a great masculine life

eat a plant-based diet there is a great

deal of evidence that erectile

dysfunction is caused by diet in many

instances and the reason is

that if you have coronary artery disease

in one area of the body you have it

everywhere so this very tiny blood

vessels that lead to the penis are some

of the first to get affected and so

erectile dysfunction has been referred

to as the canary in the coal mine it's

the sign that something is terribly

wrong and you need to fix it and at that

stage it's much more fixable than if

you've already had the heart attack or

the stroke or something really serious

happened

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obesity is linked to more than 60

chronic diseases and it is common

knowledge that there is an epidemic of

obesity around the world today

two-thirds of adults and nearly

one-third of children in America

struggle with it it's it seems like in

the last 30 years human wastelands have

simply grown out of proportion and if

obesity rates stay consistent by 2030 51

percent of the American population could

potentially be obese

as far as dieting or losing weight

people take two approaches that don't

work for the long term and so of course

they say diets don't work one approach

is they try and starve themselves and be

hungry all the time these are portion

controlled diets typical diets that

people have followed they don't work

because you're hungry all the time you

can't tolerate that kind of pain

the alternative is the make yourself

sick diets and those are the high

protein

high fat low carbohydrate diets

over the last few decades there has been

an explosion of commercial diets in the

U.S most of them revolving around the

idea that eating few carbs and lots of

animal protein helps with weight loss

all orchestrated by multi-million dollar

ingenious advertising campaigns and

celebrity endorsements

as a result nowadays most people

associate carbs with weight gain for

many years I worked really hard to cut

my carbs without any long-term results

and without fully understanding why I

was doing it

I wanted to find out what the latest

science had to say about these low carb

diets

Rob Atkins some years ago in 1973

published his first book

in which he argued that it's not the

problem with the vet

it's not the problem with the protein

but mostly fat he said that's not the

problem the problem is we consume too

much carbohydrate and he made that point

we should be consuming low carb diet he

said and then many other people wrote

the same thing

South Beach Diet is only a copycat

for the most part of the Africa is that

the Zone diet is basically a copycat

different name the blood type diet in

many regards is also a copycat good

calories bad calories very tall same

thing even mycopalian I have to say you

know omnivores dilemma and the paleo

diet in this day and time

is a copycat

they may give a different name they may

try to throw out you know different

kinds of arguments for why that's right

they're all wrong everybody wants to

hear good news about their bad habits so

when you tell people you can eat all the

lobster you want you can have steak and

eggs and you know some include Dairy

some don't include Dairy but but that

sounds good to people because it sounds

less restrictive this is written by

people I should tell you who don't have

experience in this field of nutrition

research period

most of them have never even published a

single paper into scientific literature

some of the people who are talking about

low carb diets are a little better than

news reporters and that's not to take

anything away from their skill and

investigating things but they cannot

don't have the skills to evaluate

scientific information low carb diets

they make you sick and as a result your

whole body gets sick with artery disease

and kidney damage liver damage and so on

they increase mortality that's been

shown over over again in major studies

but they also make you sick in a way

that you lose your appetite the Dieter

goes oh I finally found it and then you

go into ketosis you lost your appetite

as a result you're able to sustain

yourself without thinking about food all

the time because you're sick these diets

are dangerous and people should not be

on them well you know the biggest lies

in the world are the ones that have a

little truth we all know that it's a

very it's a great tactic

it's true I happen to agree that we

should cut down on simple carbohydrates

you see that's out of context of the

hole you know sugar white flour that

makes sense

so in that sense there's a lot of Truth

but they don't always point that out

they just say low carb low carb low carb

listen

you can dislike

all right let's let's acknowledge we all

like eating junk food if you put

chocolate in front of me today I'll have

some right but but that doesn't lead to

health

I personally knew several people who

experienced amazing healing and health

benefits after adopting some kind of a

plant-based diet

including myself but at the same time I

had also met others who were still

experiencing health issues or were

struggling with their weight after

adopting this lifestyle so for many

years

so it made me wonder was there a flaw in

this diet

first vegetarian that I knew well about

40 years ago was actually a vegan he was

a very strict vegetarian he lived on

Coca-Cola and potato chips he was fat

greasy and unhealthy so being a

vegetarian means really nothing to me

ninety percent of the vegetarians are

still consuming Dairy 90 percent and

they also consume Sometimes some fish

and sometimes some chicken and eggs and

so forth the neutral composition of the

vegetarian diet is not very different

from the non-vegetarian so as a result

if you compare the health of vegetarians

or non-veget you can't expect to see

very much but somebody's decide they're

going to be vegan in other words need

eat no animal Foods they've made a

declaration as to their physical and

mental strength and their interest and

their willingness to work hard after all

if you become vegan you have to stand up

to your mother-in-law and your doctor

your dietitian you have to quote risk

protein and calcium deficiency even

though that's not true but the problem

is is that too many vegans they don't

look good they're overweight they're

unhealthy looking I don't really like to

use the words vegan and vegetarian

because

it's not describing the kind of science

I'm talking about I would call myself a

fat vegan when I first started out

that's exactly what I was and I was

trying to tell everyone how great this

lifestyle is and it saved me It reversed

my heart disease but yet I was still

walking around about 75 pounds to 100

pounds overweight now why is somebody a

fat vegan

not because uh they give up the animal

Foods that's a good thing you need to

give up the animal foods but what they

haven't given up is the oil the olive

oil the other vegetables the fat you eat

is the fat you wear whether it comes

from a plant or an animal so I made the

change I removed the foods in my diet

that were empty calories the oils the

fats the sugars the processed foods the

food additives that kept me coming back

for more those companies add those

things purposely to get us to not eat

just one potato chip we need the whole

bag there's millions of overweight

people in this country and they're all

struggling trying this diet or that diet

and they try this diet for a week or

that diet for a week and they're

spending a lot of money on all these

different diet programs and pills and

supplements and adding things to their

diet to lose weight or to get healthy

and that's where we need to realize that

a Whole Foods plant-based diet is free

there's no shakes there's no bars

there's no powders there's no counting

calories we eat until we're full and

satisfied and stop and that's it

as much as I like the idea of eating

exclusively a plant-based diet

especially since it had worked for me I

wanted this film to be very accurate

with the latest science on food so I

wondered if realistically from a

scientific perspective could every

person in this day and age eat a

plant-based diet 100 percent of the time

I can't say and I don't think science

can say that everybody has to be a

hundred percent

you know all the time I can argue with

the case I think for the vast majority

of people we ought to be at least 90

probably 95 we've got good signs for

that and in many cases if people already

have a disease it's a good idea they

should be 100 all the time so that's my

scientific argument I have another

practical argument though on this

question concerning how far do you go

and that is that if we're going to adopt

this dietary lifestyle

it's really important that we become

accustomed to it and we should go

probably 100 if we can and stay there

and don't tease ourselves to the other

things because what happens we never

become accustomed to this where our

taste preference has changed if you do

it right there are no health issues in

fact the side effects are you're going

to lose weight you're going to look

better you're going to have more energy

you're going to avoid most of the common

degenerative conditions most of the time

you're going to have a longer life and a

healthier and a better life you know

that's about what happens when you do

this so there isn't a downside

we often hear that the key to good

health is moderation and it makes sense

but why then does it not seem to work

for most people

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you know for some people that's a really

easy thing to do but unfortunately for

most

finding moderation

is like finding a needle in a haystack

and because others can do it they feel

lost and they feel like an absolute

failure because they can't and the truth

be told most people can't find

moderation so they're actually in the

majority and not the minority

but this minority few that are on

television that have never ever been fed

never ever been sick have genetics very

much on their way they're out there

saying it's all about this and all about

that I mean how are they going to relate

to that poor person sitting at home

that's 350 pounds that feels like their

world is over

I know what they feel like I was 310

pounds I was loaded up a medication for

eight years I understand I can relate I

won't tell anybody that moderation is

easy moderation's damn hard really hard

I still haven't mastered it I'm a work

in progress when it comes to moderation

but what I'm finding is that I'm away

from an extreme now of 93 of my energy

coming from this processed and fun part

of town Animal Park I've now got this

moderation up I've now moved it up and

it's working

so how are people supposed to get all

this information since every day we're

bombarded with TV ads infomercials news

talking about the new food trends how

can we know who's telling the truth and

has honest non-biased science behind

their products

the media always approaches things with

the idea that if we're going to

interview somebody about diet we have to

let somebody with a different opinion

give their opinion alright so here's

what happens somebody like Colin

Campbell at Cornell University writes

this book The China Study it has

hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of

references it represents Decades of very

meticulous research work that he did

right and so they're going to interview

him well then they go find somebody

who's promoting a paleo diet or a low

carb diet because we have to have the

contrary opinion that person may have

written a terrible book that's a little

more than a storybook it's not

referenced it has no credibility but in

the eyes of the public now those two are

equal Colin has an opinion and this

other person has an opinion so it

confuses people and it gains traction

that way

we tend to look at the fast food

industry as the big villain responsible

for all the havocs surrounding food

choices

but these same companies that are

contributing to the problem may also

hold the key to the solution

it is a supply and demand issue so if

enough people begin demanding healthy

plant-based options perhaps that could

be a good approach

after all it is us the consumers who

should dictate what the market has to

offer and not the other way around

you can make better cleaner healthier

products by incorporating more

plant-based Foods into your products and

not to shy away from that so I don't

take a negative approach like down with

these fast foods we need to

um make them understand that they can

still make money and they can still have

a sustainable business because there are

people out there that want this food we

just have to make it available to them

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thank you

most people rely on their doctors for

information about diet and nutrition but

several medical school programs show

that doctors get very little training on

nutrition

sometimes none at all

as I went to medical school and then I

went through residency and I started

after that working on my own as a

physician after a while I became kind of

a little bit frustrated with my

inability to really really help people

because what I felt was happening was

that I was just basically seeing

patients asked to see them very quickly

and was really left with limited options

as far as what I could do I really felt

what I needed to to do with the time

that I had what I was left to do is just

basically treat symptoms

instead of trying to get to the root

cause of the problem or the word cause

of their disease so it left me basically

practicing I think the kind of medicine

that the majority of people are

practicing in the U.S which is

pharmaceutical based medicine and and I

don't have a problem with medication I

think medications are wonderful

medications are great they're necessary

for a lot of people they are really the

only option and for many people they're

a good option but I think what we're

missing is that there's something else

that's out there

I was Outsourcing my health to somebody

else I was coming along saying here's

some money you fix me I'm busy over here

and when you're going to come up with a

drug that's going to like kill me

by using more chemicals to correct the

imbalance we're actually causing the

imbalances to be even stronger I found

that people who've been on medications

for a long time are developing a lot of

side effects from those medications

where then are causing other organs in

their bodies to become diseased their

functioning is weakening they're all

overall health is weakening their immune

system is getting deficient

you really need to infuse that with

something that's going to help rebuild

it so if somebody comes along and says

you know a doctor I can take this

patient and by doing these these simple

things you know changing their diet

getting them to eat a little bit

differently more plant-based getting

them to exercise a little bit more do

you realize that I could make this

diabetes essentially if you were to test

them again virtually go away and a lot

of doctors in this country some may be

familiar with the idea of a lot of them

even to this day would still say no you

know I don't think that would be

possible the cause of most of our

diseases and the Cure is within

anybody's reach who gets the knowledge

the problem is is they have to make some

change that's a small problem the real

problem is there's no money in doing the

right thing there's money in selling you

statins and blood pressure pills and

Powerful arthritis drugs and laxatives

and ant acids that's where the money is

so that's where the edge education goes

we have to shift the dollars from

expensive procedures and shift it more

towards education teaching people

showing them about their disease and and

why it's there and teaching them the

things that they can do day in and day

out that would positively impact that

disease and possibly even get it

certainly improved and maybe even

reversed in some cases you can expect

artery disease to stabilize and reverse

and the symptoms to go away you can

expect the type 2 diabetes if it's

really type 2 diabetes to be cured 100

of the time with diet chains and

Associated weight loss you can expect

the arthritis to improve and go away and

be cured many times if they're

inflammatory arthritis is the bowel

problems all the way from indigestion to

constipation to colitis you can expect a

cure when you direct your attention to

the cause of the problem and you fix it

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on the supplement aisle is where things

get really crazy it seems like every

product can improve our health in one

way or another some support each of our

different organs others give us energy

stimulate our immune system prevent

colds reduce appetite or promote weight

loss

it makes me really confused if they are

also good for us should we even have to

worry about eating healthy

too tired too often try arrive at all if

you two need extra amounts of thiamin

and riboflavin ributorial can help you

gain new Strength new energy that just

one person among thousands of users tell

you about amazing benefits gained from

right butal there's some products out

there that could be beneficial to our

health and there's nothing wrong with

them but what I think the problem comes

when people overdo or overuse that one

product and look at it as as the you

know the Silver Bullet the thing that's

going to cure all my ills when when

people go to that extreme I don't think

there's a product out there like that I

discourage supplements most of the time

for most people and and part of the

problem with supplements is that

supplements drugs procedures they all

have application for specific

populations so the whole pitch if you

will is based on the idea

that you can't get enough nutrients from

food you don't eat the right diet so you

can somehow make up for it by taking

these dietary supplements so it's become

a 40 billion dollar industry the sales

pitch has worked people are doing it

they're buying this stuff and the people

who sell it they're hanging on for dear

life and they're not about to give in to

the scientific truth but the reality is

that all of the nutrients that you need

are in food and they're in food in very

specific and complex combinations that

we don't really even understand all of

yet and so when you extract a single

nutrient and purify it and put it in a

pill you're overloading your system with

something that it's never seen before

and is really not adapted to deal with

much better to eat smaller amounts of it

in the food and again I'll grant that

there are exceptions and in my office I

recommend supplements sometimes but but

not to the general population and that's

the problem in medicine too we want to

take everything and sell it to everybody

because that's how you make but a lot of

people have done a lot of disservice

to many many people trying to offer a

magic pill or a magic this or a solution

in five days that it's going to change

your life and the simple reality is is

that you can't do 20 years of damage

By ignoring Mother Nature's Best the

fruits the vegetables the nuts the beans

the seeds you can't spend 20 years

saying no to that and then expect

people in white coats to come up with

something is going to solve that in five

days

so what we have to do is we have to see

the error of our ways which was turning

our back on Mother Nature

and we have to turn towards her for a

solution

vitamin supplements for example we've

got a lot of data that when you take

them out of context like that and use

them that way in a short run yeah they

look sort of interesting maybe they're

looking they're looking good for a

little while especially people who may

be really low on them

but in the long run no you know they

don't work and yet we're spending 32

billion dollars a year on nutrient

supplements the most important

supplement for those

eating plant-based diets is a vitamin

B12 a regular reliable source of vitamin

B12 doesn't have to be supplements but

they're B12 fortified foods but it's a

very important it's critical for

everyone eating a plant-based diet to

get a regular reliable source of vitamin

B12 it's only two vitamins not created

by plants one is vitamin D created by

animals such as yourself when you walk

out into the sun and the other is

vitamin B12 not made by plants not made

by animals either maybe little microbes

that blanket the Earth so you know might

have gotten enough from drinking out of

a mountain stream or well water but now

we chlorinate the water that's applied

to kill off any bacteria so we don't get

a lot of you know B12 in our water

anymore don't get a lot of color right

either it's a good thing

um but the costume the way we live in

our you know sanitized modern world got

to get B12 somewhere our fellow great

apes get it from you know bugs during

feces but I prefer for a more sanitary

route which is a 1 2500 microgram

supplement once a week costs less than

five bucks a year

or vitamin B12 45 foods every day

we spend more money on health care than

any other country in the world yet we

have some of the highest rates of

chronic disease on the planet

fortunately it seems that some health

insurance providers including Medicare

are beginning to embrace the concept of

disease prevention through diet instead

of spending millions of dollars trying

to Simply manage the problem when it

might already be too late

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both the dean ornish program for

reversing heart disease as well as the

pritikin program

and this is out of a recognition that

that's not only safer it's not only

cheaper but actually more effective kind

of the traditional approach which is

very costly surgery and a lifetime of

drugs and so

I mean this is this is great from a

whole I mean most important thing is

reducing suffering and saving lives but

from a kind of a fiscal responsibility

these are I mean it's so much cheaper

it's so much more cost effective that

and who's fitting the bill well if it's

Medicare it's taxpayers so they're

saving money by making people healthier

for most people it is hard to imagine

that anybody could perform well as an

athlete without consuming any animal

products not to mention being a

world-class athlete or even a world

champion

I am a professional triathlete

specializing in the Ironman distance I'm

also the Ultraman world champion I have

been racing Triathlon professionally for

10 years I've finished 66 Iron Man races

and I love to train and race all the

time

I'm an ultra endurance athlete most

people have heard of an Iron Man if you

haven't and Iron Man is a very long

Triathlon during which over the course

of a one day period you swim 2.4 miles

you ride your bike 112 miles and then

you run a marathon while Ultraman is

essentially double that distance and in

2009 I was the fastest American and

sixth place overall in this race

I do believe that last season on a

plant-based diet was my strongest that

I've ever been I did a couple of Iron

Man races that were amongst the top five

best performances in my career and I was

able to win the Ultraman World

Championships what you're also seeing

are athletes like MMA fighters they're

realizing performance gains they're

recovering more quickly in between their

workouts you see NBA players NFL players

NHL players Olympic athletes all kinds

of athletes who are starting to

experiment and explore this way of

eating and getting good results

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I've been doing this for over eight

years right now I've never had a problem

building lean muscle mass I continue to

get stronger fitter and faster and it's

fine for me now the proof is in the

pudding I know that I am like stronger

than I've ever been without animal

products and so

I proved it really like to myself that

I'm hopefully approved to other people

that it can be done

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I'm a neurofibromatosis patient

I'm an ambassador for

a couple organizations that do

philanthropic work for sick children

I'm an mpnst cancer survivor

mpnst is a rare sarcoma

it's one of the most aggressive and fast

infiltrating cancers that there is on

the planet

I've had over

325 tumors removed from my body

I've lived a very very rigorous and

painful last three and a half years

battling for my life

and um

I had a decision to make

I'm either gonna let this take me

or I'm gonna fight

like giving up wasn't an option I don't

know what's going to happen

but I'm not gonna die sitting down or

laying down I'm gonna keep my hands up

my head tugging I'm not gonna stop

swinging until it's over

and without a plant-based diet I would

not be here today

it kind of

kept my cancer at Bay and it's allowing

me to thrive in ways I didn't know was

possible the insane mindset that

animal protein is the key to being very

healthy you know almost killed me

I'm not saying plant-based diets cure or

they're the end-all be-all but what I am

saying is that if you're going through

some type of Health crisis

your eyes are very very much greater

when you Embrace a plant-based lifestyle

those are just the facts and my life is

the living proof

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in 2006 I attempted suicide whilst I was

on 250 milligrams of Zoloft for what the

doctors diagnosed as major depressive

disorder

and I was told that I'd be most likely

on it for the rest of my life a week

after that I went into a personal

development course and changed my

beliefs from there I started to look at

what I was putting into my body

and I started to look at nutrition and

nutritional healing and what I could do

and it led me to going within and Back

To Nature I Stripped Away all of the

processed food

I went back to just eating raw fruits

and vegetables and juicing and green

smoothies and

I started to have a sense of a natural

happy High started to come into my body

and I was

feeling

better than I'd felt in many years

the symptoms of depression started to

drop away the heavy sluggish tired

feelings that I couldn't cope The

Chronic fatigue the aches you know

everything started to shift and I

started to to feel that my cells were

transforming on some level

I'd made the decision that I I didn't

want to put ever again the fear death

and suffering of of another life in

eating eating animals into my body and

that translated to a shift for me I

cured my own depression and I've never

looked back

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tasty food is one of the biggest

Pleasures in life

so many people might argue that even

though eating an unhealthy diet is not

good for them they don't want to

jeopardize the fun aspect of it and

therefore they continue eating unhealthy

things

but one thing that I came to discover is

that when you transition into a

healthier eating lifestyle you do not

have to compromise on taste yes you will

go for a transition period but once your

taste buds and your body's chemistry

begins to change you will start to Crave

and really enjoy these Foods it is

important to find food you like and once

you realize that almost every dish can

be made plant-based you will see that

it's not that hard at all

there's such a stigma with the word

vegan I guess that people just get

automatically turned off and just assume

that it's going to suck it's like it

doesn't it's if anything to me and like

that's another big thing why I do it

because it's better to me I think food

just is way better this way I would say

just try it you know you'll surprise

yourself

when you're becoming vegetarian and

you're giving up the meat and the dairy

and the eggs the only thing you know for

food you think you're going to starve to

death

you have to understand that marnar sauce

and pasta and lasagna and bean burritos

and oatmeal and hash brown potatoes and

so on things you love that's where you

get your calories and your protein your

vitamins and your minerals there are so

many beautiful wonderful amazing

delicious plant-based Foods out there in

fact when I started to do this a whole

world opened up to me and when you begin

to eat these nutrient dense foods that

are actually fueling you that are

actually nourishing you with all these

amazing phytonutrients and

micronutrients and you start to feel

good your Cravings change and your taste

buds change you know that that

cheeseburger that you couldn't get out

of your mind suddenly you're not

thinking about that anymore and you're

actually craving that kale smoothie and

that's something that happened to me

that I would have never thought would

have happened people think that vegan

food just tastes like crap and that's

not true I think people think that being

vegan might potentially be strange that

people or weird that you have to be

hippie or you have to embrace wearing

hemp clothes or something you want to

have a burger you can have a burger you

want to have spaghetti and meatballs you

can have spaghetti and wheat balls you

want to have fries you want to have

chocolate mousse you want to have

pumpkin pie you want to have stuffing

you want to have you know even hot dogs

so when you're looking at the idea of

taking the leap into this way of eating

and living don't look at what you're

going to be not eating

Embrace and be excited about the

adventure of all these new foods that

you're going to be bringing into your

life

healthy will not do you much good if you

can't afford it or if it leaves a big

hole in your pocket so my next question

was is it possible to eat healthy on a

tight budget

a common misconception is that the Whole

Foods plant-based diet

is that expensive I routinely post

pictures of my grocery receipt and I

take my whole Bounty that I bought at

the produce market and put it out on the

table so people can see how much I end

up with and they're shocked whole grains

that we buy in bulk are very inexpensive

you're going to cut your grocery bills

in half from a typical standard American

diet in the beginning it might seem like

a lot of effort but in the long run

you're saving all this money for all the

new clothes you're gonna have to buy for

the new slim U that is produced from

eating this Whole Foods plant-based diet

it's easy to go into those markets and

say there's no way that I can do this

but the truth of the matter is that it

doesn't have to be expensive it doesn't

have to be inconvenient it doesn't have

to be difficult it doesn't have to be

time consuming and my experience is that

it is actually simplified my life and

it's been cheaper than eating the other

way around

at this point of my journey I already

had seen enough evidence about the

benefits and safety of a plant-based

diet for adults but was this lifestyle

also ideal and safe for children

not only can children grow healthy on a

plant-based diet they'll grow healthiest

on a plant-based diet and we have an

epidemic of childhood obesity and

children raise plant-based actually grow

taller by about names they grow about an

inch taller the median companies and

most importantly they grow Less in a

horizontal direction right they don't

have the

um the same problems with childhood

obesity so Dr Benjamin spot the most

esteemed pediatrician of all time wrote

one of the best-selling books in human

history recommended in his final edition

of the seventh edition of his book

before he died in his 90s that all

children should be raised with zero

exposure to meat and dairy I did this

because he saw what you know the older

Generations were dying from and wanted

to get them off on a good start I mean

the leading killers

of our children will eventually be same

thing heart disease cancer stroke COPD

diabetes hypertension these are diseases

that can be prevented in many cases

arrested or even reversed with a healthy

enough plant-based diet

as a new father I wondered how could I

get my daughter to eat healthy since

getting her to eat anything at all can

sometimes be a problem

there's so much junk being marketed to

kids out there and it is often difficult

for parents to transition their children

to healthier food options

I would not be surprised at all that if

in 15 20 25 years time

people will look back at the last 10 to

20 years and they'll say how

did those people give that food to their

children

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the question that we get all the time is

how can I get my kids to eat better I

think every parent wants their kids to

eat healthy and it's it's difficult

especially when everywhere you look

there's a fast food restaurant or a

processed food snack that is being

marketed towards children and the first

thing that I always say is you have to

lead by example as a parent you can't be

eating lousy foods and expect your

children to eat healthy because you tell

them to so you have to walk your walk

that's number one the second thing is I

encourage all parents to make the

preparation of meals and the shopping of

food inclusive with their children the

more you can bring your kids into the

fold the more they're going to develop

an emotional attachment to where their

food comes from how it's prepared and

the impact that it's having on their

health really get inside their heads and

sort of think how they would think uh

telling them what is good what is bad

won't probably work uh you have to

interact with them you have to show them

what's possible

get your hands dirty get the kids to

help you and let them own what they're

doing

if you always put something in front of

them in a silver platter and let them

consume that information you know it'll

only work for so long what you got to do

is you got to get them involved let them

have the responsibility the way I

approach it is that I try to make as fun

as possible use colors use flavors teach

a little thing that they never knew

about use

gadgets that normal people won't see but

I want them to go away with the feeling

of accomplishment

and something that they're eager to

share to their friends

hopefully their parents I think that's

the best part it's like holding a bird

you don't want to hold it too tight

You're Gonna Hurt the bird you don't

want to hold it too Loosely it's going

to fly away

that's something that each individual

parent has a specific knowledge of their

kid I get the questions all the time

what do I do how do I start how do I

tell my kids oh they're going to be so

disappointed that they're not having

meat on their plates that they're not

having Dairy try a vegan burger it's

basically the same thing you just leave

the meat out that's great for kids

because why are you going to put that

burger on that bun you're going to put

all the Fixins on that whatever your

kids like and make it exactly the same

that's a great way to get started I mean

I think with the younger generation

what's so exciting is is that they get

to start young I mean

not going to have any regrets but it

sort of bums me out a little bit that

I'm just now discovering this in my 30s

because I wish I would have done this

when I was younger because just the

thoughts of like the energy that I would

have had in college I think the other

thing

is to not have hard and fast rules with

your children you can't eat that and you

know you have to eat this and instead

respect them as independent sentient

beings who have uh you know the

wherewithal to make conscious decisions

for themselves so at our home we serve

plant-based Foods all the time we don't

have any animal products here but when

my 10 year old daughter goes to a

birthday party she's surrounded by you

know chicken McNuggets and birthday cake

and all of that and we don't say to her

you can't eat those Foods we say have a

great time at the birthday party and

make the right choice for you and that

doesn't mean that she always makes the

right choice

that way you are empowering them this is

a lifetime we're talking about this is a

long road ahead so it's about getting

your children to think consciously about

their own choices so that when they

reach the age of maturity they are

informed and educated and prepared to be

responsible stewards of the planet and

responsible stewards of their own bodies

I could not make a film about food

choices and not explore the topic of

organic versus non-organic it seems that

everybody is obsessed with those words

and is becoming increasingly adverse to

foods that don't carry an organic label

others fear that consuming more

plant-based Foods might be damaging to

their health due to the increase of

pesticides in those foods but should

this really be our biggest concern

fear of pesticide should never keep

anyone from maximizing their fruit and

vegetable intake I mean there's uh you

know so there's been like kind of

computer modeling studies that suggest

that so for example if half of Americans

ate a single more serving of fruits and

vegetables a day we'd prevent twenty

thousand cancer deaths every year just

half of people did one more serving 20

000 people

would not have died from cancer would

normally have died if they hadn't done

that so that's how powerful fruits and

vegetables are but because these were

conventional pesticide latent fruits and

vegetables they estimated that it would

that the extra pesticide burden from all

those extra fruits and vegetables would

cause 10 extra candidates so in all it

would only prevent

19990 cancer deaths I mean that's that's

what we're looking at you get this

tremendous benefit and then a tiny bump

in wrist so okay great choose organic

whenever you can why accept any risk why

not get all benefits sure but we should

never let concerned about pesticides in

any way dissuade us from stuffing our

face with as many healthy foods and

vegetables as possible if you're eating

meat you're and you're eating commercial

meat and you're worried about switching

to plant-based diet and worried about

the pesticides on the produce you're

being ridiculous because you're getting

a fraction of the pesticides by eating

the vegetable

that you can mostly wash it off remember

you can wash you can soak your

vegetables and use a wash to get

pesticide residue off you cannot wash

the pesticide off of the hamburger meat

you're about to prepare I encourage

people just to go ahead and buy whatever

produce they can afford whatever produce

looks the freshest that week in the

grocery store and whatever's on sale so

that's where they're going to save money

is not worrying about

I have to buy organic valve covers and

they cost me four dollars each that's

not a sustainable lifestyle

besides the health aspect related to our

food choices I also realized during the

production of this film that there was

another very important factor that is

often overlooked ignored or

misunderstood

the connection between food choices and

the environment

I was really shocked after reading the

United Nations report on global warming

after all it is hard to grasp the idea

that the burger or steak on our plates

might be contributing to things such as

global warming water scarcity species

Extinction the destruction of the Amazon

forest the depletion of our oceans and

even world hunger I had a hard time

understanding it at first but once I

began digging a little deeper the

connection became clear

now it's seven billion people what we

eat determines how the whole planet is

used and what's happening now is that as

we run out of land to grow these animals

and the food for the animals we burn

down rainforests to acquire more land

and the number one cause of all of that

is our food choices

it's expected to have a 40 shortage in

Fresh Water Supplies by the year 2030.

we have again irreversible loss of

biodiversity ecosystems and Extinction

of species faster than we've ever seen

before for the past 65 million years we

have a world hunger issue with a little

less than a billion people on Earth

suffering from Hunger with about 350

children dying from Hunger each hour

you might be asking yourself how is all

that possible and I had the same

questions because in fact many of these

issues are not only related to our food

choices many are very complex problems

with several social political economic

and cultural variables

but here are some intriguing facts

seventy percent of our arable land is

used to grow crops for animals and not

humans it takes on average 2400 gallons

of water and 12 pounds of grain to make

one pound of beef

5 million Acres of rainforest are

destroyed every year so companies can

graze animals and grow food for these

animals

the excrements of 80 billion land

animals killed every year for food are

not treated and go back into our water

basins and our oceans creating a lot of

pollution and these are just a few

examples

so when you consider these facts it all

begins to fall into place

we need to focus more and understand

more what the footprint is the complete

life cycle analysis ecological

environmental depleting footprint is of

that item versus just how close it is to

you or whether it's even organic or not

it's much less of a footprint to eat

something that was grown 1500 miles away

if it was plant-based than it is to eat

a food item that was slaughtered that

was an animal product by your next door

neighbor our largest footprint is across

all sectors our food Choice specifically

as it relates to eating animals

no matter how green or eco-friendly we

try to be the truth is that by Nature we

are a very destructive species almost

everything we do has a negative impact

on the environment

so many people often try to minimize

their footprint by doing things like

switching to more effective light bulbs

taking short showers bicycling to work

using solar energy or even buying an

electric car

and those are all great things but the

question is are these actions in fact

the easiest and most effective when it

comes to helping protect our planet and

its resources

if you look at the four major problems

we've got overpopulation and we're

adding about a million people every four

days net then you get to the way we live

then the way we consume stuff all that

stuff is coming from finite resources

which we are steadily depleting so those

first two factors the overpopulation and

the way we live are driving the third

one which is our dependence on fossil

fuels look at the numbers since 1950 the

line for consumption of fossil fuels

have gone steadily up every year and

there's no end in sight the fourth Big

Driver of all of these environmental

issues particularly global warming is

the way we eat is our consumption of the

meat Dairy eggs and fish and that keeps

going up it requires per calorie over 10

times as much land 10 times as much

water and 10 times as much energy and it

ranges but the average is well over 10

times and that's a big number now the

good news is we can change what we eat

any individual overnight

people say wow what would happen if

everybody changed it once well that's

not going to happen the bad news is

those first three items

overpopulation over consumption and

dependence on fossil fuels each one of

those would take decades if not

centuries to fix

with more and more people embracing the

idea of reducing their intake of animal

products or adopting some kind of a

plant-based diet it seems that things

are moving in the right direction

but are they really

you know I hear people saying things are

getting better

you know we see people putting solar

panels up and more people are eating

plant-based and there's vegan

restaurants going in down the street

things are getting better well not

really and not even close

for every individual and that's moving

in the direction of a plant-based diet

there's a hundred people moving in the

other direction we've got to double our

food production in the next 40 years to

feed the 9 billion that we'll have by

2050.

when it comes to global warming the

production of animals for food currently

contributes to about 14.5 percent of the

total global warming effect a

contribution larger than the entire

Global Transportation sector combined

livestock amounts to 53 percent of

nitrous oxide emissions 44 of methane

gas and five percent of the total carbon

dioxide released in our atmosphere

raising livestock and eating fish and

also producing Dairy is one of the

largest contributing factors to climate

change and the public needs to know this

and policies need to be enacted to help

eliminate that it's one of the easiest

ways that we have to not just adapt to

but to mitigate climate change and it

can be done as easy as just changing out

what you have on your plate

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beef

seems to be the new trend and the idea

sounds really appealing cows that live

off grass don't take any antibiotics and

therefore supposedly provide a healthier

food source for us when compared to

factory farmed animals but is there a

catch

it's a very large movement today and I

think that what's happening is is that

there's been a shift because of more and

more people being concerned about the

Humane raising of animals and moving

away from factory farms they're moving

toward grass-fed operations or pasture

fat operations it's a complete

fabrication by the meat and dairy

Industries to continue perpetuating the

slaughtering of animals because even

though some animal might be Humane

raised they're still not Humane killed

and all of the animals that are still

placed on your plate have to be

slaughtered in some Manner and so

there's still a Humane issue there but

from an environmental standpoint in many

aspects raising grass-fed beef is less

sustainable than Factory fed animals and

the reason is because it's so land

intensive it may require eight pounds of

feed to produce one pound of an Animal

product if it were beef but in a

grass-fed situation sometimes it's 10

times that much it may be 70 80 times

from a grass fed to a grain fed beef

additionally for from a climate change

standpoint grass-fed cattle produce 40

to 60 percent more greenhouse gas

emissions meaning methane carbon dioxide

land use changes then a grain-fed cow

wood

another thing often taken for granted is

the depletion of our oceans we often

think of fish as a never-ending

self-replenishing food source but the

truth seems seems to be quite different

over 90 percent of all the big fish and

oceans are already gone

eighty percent of commercial Fisheries

are over exploited or depleted the

fishing fleets are chasing the last of

the fish and have to travel further and

further away from the land and deeper

and deeper into the ocean to catch them

I've seen the legal fishing in

Antarctica and that's as far away from

Land as you can get

someone sits down at a table to eat fish

or seafood on their plate

what they're really doing is they're

eating a Target fish that's becoming

depleted and to the point of near

Extinction but they're also eating

baggage comes with it and typically it

requires about five to twenty times more

other Seafood as bike hill and bike hill

is the term that relates to all those

other sea life living in the ocean that

are killed in the process of trying to

get that Target fish to your plate

whether it's with percine type of

fishing method or a long line or bottom

trawling or middle trawling our oceans

are expected to be completely devoid of

all fish that we recognize commercially

today by the year 2048. the oceans are

dying and nobody wants to know about it

and if the ocean die we die it's as

simple as that and if you start

destroying them you're basically killing

out the crew and the life support system

is going to collapse and there won't be

any air to breathe and there won't be

any food to eat the climate will be out

of control and not a good thing but we

have to like humble ourselves and

recognize that we need these this

diversity we need these creatures we

need this interdependence and if we

don't see that then our chances of

survival are are quite slim my big

concern is not that we're going to wipe

ourselves out out of sheer ecological

stupidity but that we're going to take

so much with us

so much confusion and so much debate

that it just boggles my mind that we

can't think like third graders and say

why not just address the number one

cause here

you know we got we got 10 holes in the

boat the boat's thinking which hole do

we go first go to the big hole fill that

they go first

I mean so often we're looking at just

what we would like to eat because it

satisfies our taste preferences well

we're at a point in time in order to

save Humanity essentially save our

species which is not an overstatement at

all we need to start looking outside

itself and start looking at how our

choices are fully affecting those around

us those species that we share this

planet with and especially future

Generations

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a couple years back I saw a documentary

called earthlings that exposed the

conditions in which farm animals are

slaughtered it made a big impact on me I

knew that animals got killed for food

but seeing how it actually happened and

seeing the suffering pain and Terror

that these animals go through put things

into A New Perspective for me I was

already eating mostly plant-based Foods

at a time but after seeing those images

I decided I could not contribute to the

killing of innocent animals any longer

so I became a 100 plant eater I was not

in a position to judge anybody after all

I ate animals for over 30 years of my

life

but I wanted to understand how come in

this day and age such a massive genocide

was allowed and how come us the general

population government and corporations

allowed for this to happen

we love some animals and eat others

because we have been born into a

invisible belief system that conditions

us to compartmentalize when it comes to

animals it conditions us to think of

certain animals as edible and other

animals as inedible and the invisible

belief system that conditions us to eat

certain animals is what I call carnism

One Way carnism remains invisible is by

remaining unnamed if we don't name it we

can't even think about it so we can't

question it when we don't see something

obviously it becomes much easier to

maintain this mythology that there is no

problem there is no atrocity

this is not just something to eat this

is pure for love joy work action

this

is life

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you think they're this animal they have

intelligence they have language signal

they have love so when they're about to

face deaths in a dead chamber they fear

and they said and they anger you know

everybody talks about the Holocaust what

about the Holocaust we're creating for

the animals every year we're killing

billions and billions of animals and you

want peace on Earth

peace on Earth is for all living

entities not just humans

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people just got locked up in Utah for

photographing a capo a concentrated

animal feeding operation these people

are keeping the people ignorant and sick

to make to make money and if the truth

gets out if people know where their food

came from or where their food how their

food was produced they wouldn't eat that

when you start to threaten the

dominant Paradigm of the of society

you're going to become a force to be

reckoned with and they'll do everything

they can to destroy you and that's

exactly what that's happening now

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there are still people who will see that

and they'll be resistant I mean I was

one of those people you know I grew up

in Texas eating beef all the time and

and I loved animals I always loved the

companion animals I grew up with and you

know I never really thought much I

thought I was eating healthy so I think

a lot of the resistance that people feel

is because we're so conditioned to eat

these things all the time we've been

conditioned from a very young age and

even if we make the intellectual

connection even if we say yes I'm eating

a cow we still don't make the emotional

connection because if we did we would

feel the empathy that would cause us to

feel disgusted rather than appetized I

couldn't pretend anymore that that was

that was eating that chunk of chicken

breast was the same as the broccoli next

to it it just didn't I couldn't I

couldn't fake it from to myself anymore

there's a reason why you know

slaughterhouses and feed lots are not

located in densely populated areas it's

not for lack of space it's because

people don't want us to see it it and

then those animals going a long journey

to the slaughterhouse at night usually

so we don't see a lot of that and that's

by Design who's to say which animals are

to be tortured and killed we've decided

in America in our part of the world cows

and pigs and and Lambs are to be eaten

but in some parts of the world they eat

dogs and cats in some parts of the world

they eat snakes and monkeys yes it's

true that people have eaten animals for

thousands of years but today for many

people in the world there is absolutely

no need to eat animals you know we are

causing as human beings massive

suffering to other sentient beings

suffering that is completely unnecessary

when eating animals is no longer a

necessity for survival then it becomes a

choice and choices always stem from

beliefs

there is a popular myth that perpetuates

the idea that fish don't feel any pain

that makes it easier for people to

consume it since it seems to be more

humane

but is it really true

fish have probably reception they have

feelings and so there are a number of

researchers that would tell you very

clearly that it's a very uncompassionate

way to beat your slaughtering between

one and three trillion fish per year and

all of those fish have sensory reception

they all have feelings the the

industries depend on keeping these facts

out of our Consciousness so for example

we learn to resist taking in information

from those who may help us begin to

question carnism if you shoot the

messenger you don't have to take

seriously the implications of their

message so we need to educate our

children the true meaning of what these

animals really are by showing and by

awareness about life of the pig or

chicken is very much same as life of cat

and dog

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on this planet is very short and change

can sometimes be difficult and slow but

by taking the right steps we can point

ourselves into a better Direction

as for myself this was the most exciting

journey I ever took and I look forward

to continue living a healthy plant-based

lifestyle with my family and to keep

empowering others with this information

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it's so important for us to take care of

ourselves for our own human health

standpoint but it really won't matter

how healthy we are if our planet isn't

healthy

do you know what's unique about us

we are the only species out of the

Millions

that does not live in harmony with

nature

at least it's good to educate yourself

and be aware and then you can make the

decision from there because ultimately

it's your choice to make you know it's

not like hey if you you know you're the

worst person if you don't do this no

it's not like that but at least educate

yourself find out you know so at least

you just know and then you can make the

choices on your own I don't believe

there's an evil cabal of doctors and and

government people I believe there's a

system in place and the world is so

asleep and they've forgotten intuitively

that people just follow the system

without thinking without questioning and

it's because they're asleep it's not

because they're stupid it's not because

they're not motivated I mean it's really

Insanity when you think about it that we

are sitting here in the modern day and

we've got to talk about eating fruits

and vegetables you know you go back in

any time in history past say the last

100 200 years and it was just like

everyone was doing it if you want to be

a responsible Steward of our precious

planet and its dwindling resources

eating a plant-based diet really is the

only solution and by voting with your

dollar and eating a plant-based diet you

are saying no to animal Agriculture and

all the devastation all the Havoc that

it's wreaking on our planet I think that

every human being

wants to do good

I think that every human being in their

core

wants to do what's right

and I think that if we look at it and we

say

you know what what is it that I can do

today

to make the environment better

to make my health better

and have compassion for animals for our

fellow creatures what is it that I can

do today I can start on the path to a

plant-based diet

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