Vegucated is charming and fun to watch. They pick off willing people from craigslist then take them around vegan experts, to a bunch of different vegan places and also expose them to slaughterhouses. This movie contains a ton of fun family, friend activities and ideas that you could do to make others see how not being vegan is harmful for the animals, health and the planet.
This is entertaining to watch as a vegan because only very few of us have gone vegan from birth. I would also think we still get exposed daily to see meat and dairy all around us so it probably wouldn't bother that many vegans that they eat meat at the start. Although if someone can live away from that then this documentary certainly can seem less cheerful then because there are reminders everywhere that not that many people go vegan. There is a sense of comradery as in "I have been through this!", except these people get people to help them.
There are a couple choices that I disagree with and shows this documentary's age. They do not make a point that vegans should be activists, that would be fine if animals could speak up for themselves, but they can't, they can't be activists for themselves so we have to do it for them. The creators behind the documentary were too lenient and accepting of vegetarianism, also a girl literally got a boyfriend who was not even plant based during this which makes me think that the ethics weren't properly discussed despite all the slaughterhouse footage being shown.
I love the comedic tone this documentary has, but it's not adequate on some levels and not a strong enough of a push for so that the viewers would go vegan. It might implant some flawed ideas into them as well. I hope there is a documentary of this kind in the future with a more professional and budgeted effort. Maybe there is now? No idea. I can't rate it that high even though I want to rate all vegan documentaries as high as I can pretty much, but this felt like a vegetarian effort in places so a vegetarian rating it will get.
This is entertaining to watch as a vegan because only very few of us have gone vegan from birth. I would also think we still get exposed daily to see meat and dairy all around us so it probably wouldn't bother that many vegans that they eat meat at the start. Although if someone can live away from that then this documentary certainly can seem less cheerful then because there are reminders everywhere that not that many people go vegan. There is a sense of comradery as in "I have been through this!", except these people get people to help them.
There are a couple choices that I disagree with and shows this documentary's age. They do not make a point that vegans should be activists, that would be fine if animals could speak up for themselves, but they can't, they can't be activists for themselves so we have to do it for them. The creators behind the documentary were too lenient and accepting of vegetarianism, also a girl literally got a boyfriend who was not even plant based during this which makes me think that the ethics weren't properly discussed despite all the slaughterhouse footage being shown.
I love the comedic tone this documentary has, but it's not adequate on some levels and not a strong enough of a push for so that the viewers would go vegan. It might implant some flawed ideas into them as well. I hope there is a documentary of this kind in the future with a more professional and budgeted effort. Maybe there is now? No idea. I can't rate it that high even though I want to rate all vegan documentaries as high as I can pretty much, but this felt like a vegetarian effort in places so a vegetarian rating it will get.