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Vegan 2016 (2016)
Vegan rewind 2016
Dr. Michel Greger released his book this year which garnered a lot of media press. Ed Eathiling gave a speech, lots of new vegan athletes appeared, vegan meats improved. Veganism got some pushback from the meat industries as it gathered attention, but also a lot of vegan alternatives started to appear because companies started to see profit in veganism. I don't keep up with TV or news outlets at all so it's nice to see the most important information from them and to not sift through them myself. Some great statistics and improvements from last year, it's so nice to have a resource like this so that you can see the progress this movement had.
Vegan 2015 (2015)
Vegan rewind
This is a nice compilation of everything that happened in 2015. Hopeful and informative over vegan advancements, it is only 20 minutes long and the next instalments get longer. I am excited to see how this improves and changes through the years, this is such a cool thing to do even if the information gets outdated or someone gets mentioned who doesn't deserve it anymore haha. Some vegans give nice quotes in it, there are book releases and a plethora of vegan brands get mentioned. It is so wholesome to see all the vegan influencers in one place, this is the better youtube rewind. Cool how forks over knives and Cowspiracy were released around this time.
Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023)
I don't feel like I found out much, but it's vegan idk
Punk rock vegan movie shows the history of some of the vegan punk rock bands and their challenges of trying to find appealing food in the 80s. It seems that they managed to eat whole food plant based foods, except the ones who ate white bread. I don't really get the point of making it seem like it was a hard thing to do or stating it like they sacrificed something, but I suppose the ones who would listen to this music like the air of feeling cool and having a feeling of a cool story behind everything they do.
The concept of straight edge is really cool- no alcohol, no drugs. Combined with veganism it's even cooler. It is amazing that a subculture with so much controversial activism, political ideas actually had so many wholesome and liberating messages- the yin yang of trying to get a peaceful message out there is that sometimes you have to be loud about it. It is great that these people found a place for themselves in the entertainment industry which can lead to a big impact for the animals. Fans of these bands seem to have gone vegan simply because these bands made it seem very cool.
Lots of these stars or at least the ones in the movie are quite aged now so it is not the most exciting or punk movie anymore, but the older audiences might like the nostalgia of it and it is a nice pat on the back to all the vegans who support or are part of the punk rock scene. It would have been cool to see newer voices of the scene if there are any, there was one singer who started out an activist in the movie who was young. The cold cave people also seemed young, but there wasn't much focus on them and their voices.
Other than that this must have been a passion project and not that serious on getting the most quality footage or anything and that is commendable. This was made to be consumed completely for free. There isn't much to complain about and it focuses on the ethics at the end. Think for yourself and make the choices that make you live your most fulfilling life regardless of what the outside thinks.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
Vegan for the environment doc
Cowspiracy exposes the environmental impact the animal agriculture has and how even the environmental organisations are refusing to speak about it because of the power the meat industry has. In Brazil activists have been murdered for speaking up for the animals.
This documentary is professionally produced and covers how meat is bad for us in a variety of ways. So far the documentaries I watched shied away from delving deeper into the environmental impacts, the amount of methane gazes the cows produce and the water they consume. They don't show the animals getting murdered much, but there is a single scene near the end.
They interviewed some people who raise animals free range, they claimed to love the said animals and that they have no environmental impact. The amount of land that kind of farming uses says otherwise. We could be growing crops for us and focusing our energy on more important topics than eating corpses.
It is baffling how the members of leading environmental organisations are stumped when asked simple questions or how the meat industry representatives lie outright in your face. It is powerful to show such footage because it speaks for itself. I love the motivation they drop in the end because it rings true to my experiences.
I already watched one documentary by this creator and will watch more because they are of a higher quality than a lot of previous, unmodern efforts of animal rights documentaries. I love how they call up the experts, but also the people who choose to stay silent.
It captures a lot of depression people might feel about after learning the information, but reframes it in a more productive and helpful way. Consuming the information in this manner alleviates a lot of pressure and makes it seem like it isn't such a big deal to be an activist for these issues. Which is true, but also false. Anyone can do this to a certain extent, but the people who do are strong, intelligent and capable, they are unafraid of life and the opinions of others.
The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
The life of an animal rights photographer
A movie about a photographer exposing animal abusers and animal abuse culture. She goes fearlessly into the industry, the farms and gets high quality and publishable photos for the cause. The relief for her is the animals at the sanctuaries and taking photos of them.
There are so many shots, so many different kinds of animals suffering in the movie. I got a bit short of breath while watching, got all sorts of terrible memories revisited and cried out. This shouldn't be happening and this shouldn't be hidden. It is wild how we hate ourselves as a society so much that we let this happen and continue.
People get focused over what is cringe and what is lame so much, they go to musicians and cool artists and leave hate comments, death threats all the time if they challenge the industry. But that kind of thing isn't even related to the animal abuse industry. Why do people have so much time to hate on things that are not even hateable? If they focus on such minute things and not the important ones like this then we truly live in a hopeless hell.
I find that other reviews on here are trying to find excuses to hate on this movie, methods are not okay? Emotional manipulation? It's like we are not on real emotional manipulation 24/7. This is actual emotion, this is real, this is about actual lives that suffer, it is not CGI, it's not special effects. It is made for the purpose to save lives that are even now currently being killed and abused in the most creative ways mankind could ever. I wish people would actually focus on the environment, themselves and the healt, but they don't even do that. What the hell are our priorities? Why are we not concerned about this? Why do we fear the truth so much that others have to die for it? If we all had more bravery we wouldn't need to live in a dystopia, we could actually focus on making the world a better place and we could make and consume entertainment without any guilt. Why is our environment dominated by guilt?
I want everyone to watch movies like this, read books like this and share them. It is not a matter of personal taste or what you like. This is lives at stake and until they are saved, the quality of this movie, even though I think it is a legit good movie, doesn't even matter. The message is so powerful that the movie should be promoted regardless of aesthetics.
I don't want to live in a world where sad animal eyes haunt us at every corner.
What the Health (2017)
An essencial documentary on health.
A professionally filmed, produced and edited vegan documentary about the ill effects of the meat industry. It has beautiful graphs and artworks to demonstrate its points. This work focuses fully on health and I think that is fine. The documentary invited tons of vegan experts, but also showed a ton of people recovering from medications after being put on an endless number of them. It shows plenty of intrinsic reasons as to why one goes vegan and doesn't mention the ethics of it.
They got one interview from the diabetes prevention people which was pretty entertaining. This documentary shows the lengths that diet is excluded from our discourse about health and how health organisations have their agendas, how they hide the facts that would empower individuals. The ways they fail the consumers are tremendous. The cancerous, cigarette like effects that meat has not only affects regular people, but also farmers and people living near farms. The amount of excretions that the animals produce is abysmal.
It is catastrophic what we let go on and how we refuse to address these issues that hinder our lives now. We stall our health and care for ourselves till there is no health left for anyone, we can only be healthy for others if we get healthy for ourselves first. We have created a toxic environment which promotes and multiples unhealthy living even for health conscious people. People who go to plant bases still have to deal with other people who contaminate their vegetables with animal product residue.
I am glad someone took the time to gather the experts, to ask their advice and to educate the public on something that should be known to everyone. People need to empower their bodies and to discover their strengths with the cheapest, healthiest and most natural diet made for human consumption which doesn't involve foreign, nonhuman animal milk that is not meant for us. We do not need to be addicted to other animals' bodily fluids like on heroin.
It's time to look into our fridges and choose health.
La belle verte (1996)
A comedy for an eco audience
Edit: okay some points and intentions still stand, but I realised that this is a vegetarian film and they literally milk cows in the beggining, yikes.
This was a lovely movie that I did not expect to find in Lithuanian. I heard about it from a solarpunk reddit. I have never watched a fictional vegan comedy with vegans travelling interstellar, but it's not vegans being made fun of, the rest of the earth is. This movie understands all the little annoyances that come with being vegan and presents them in subversive ways which a lot of current activists documentaries right now can't do, but there is nothing wrong with those. This movie manages to be completely different and stand out. I long for vegan fictional movies and I am not sure how to find them because for example this one wouldn't show up in vegan movie google results.
I love the French language and eco-feminism. This movie is a combination of many great things. I can't imagine people unfamiliar with veganism enjoying this, some environment might get a little more out of it, but this is a piece of media that's been made for vegans. This is something I have not experienced while growing up. I wish there was a plethora with movies like this and a higher quality of jokes that do not make fun of minorities, but rather make fun of the world and its oppressions.
It is so baffling to think that people have been going vegan way before I was born and yet the progress made towards veganism is so little, instead of this being the most important topic and on everyone's minds we have football, video games, anime and other addictions. Some video games and anime are dear to my heart, but most of them are violent and the ones I love always subvert the material, genre and do things outside the norm.
I laughed out loud while watching and the movie keeps you on your toes and goes to a lot of unexpected places. I hope it becomes more popular as more people turn to veganism.
The Land of Ahimsa (2022)
Animal rights documentary set in India
I hoped to get more information about the religious background of India and how Ahimsa was founded, I feel like I only got the most basic explanation of what it is. Most of the documentary is the basic information that people need for the push to go vegan. This was made for an Indian audience and has a ton of Indian people and activists. Various Indian vegan businesses get promoted at the end.
I think people pour lots of milk for religious rituals in India based on the footage. There was this specific God that apparently drank milk, but the experts suggest not taking the teachings literally as they do lots of other impossible things. India is the 5th largest meat producer in the world currently, people in India use a lot of meat and oils when they have other traditional alternatives, lentils, greens, seeds.
There were a lot of animal rights activists that I haven't seen before in this movie and I am happy to see how people from the other side of the world are fighting this issue although it would be better if they had it solved. India is large and it would be amazing if people there went vegan, but I find that to be super hopeful even if they have Ahimsa. Ahimsa is the ethical virtue of not causing harm towards other beings, but most people in India seem to not uphold it whatsoever.
This documentary had dramatic telenovela editing at one point which was amusing. I liked the part where they discuss how we resemble herbivores more and how they mention the long nails curling, I had no idea. I also probably forgot that a long intestine system was something that carnivores don't have.
Land of Hope and Glory (2017)
Exposing the most humane country
Land of Glory and Hope exposes the UK farms that are considered as the most humane animal farms in the world, it debunks that humane means anything positive when combined with murder.
This documentary shows footage of pigs, cows and birds being brutally slaughtered. It also shows how lambs get slaughtered in a way even more unregulated. The lack of sanitation, humanity, basic human decency in this movie can shock someone into considering veganism as a philosophy.
If anyone watched this I would recommend Dominion as it is a higher quality and a more ambitious production, a way larger group effort to expose what happens to animals all over the world.
It is inspiring to see what a youtuber or a public figure can achieve and how they can get the means to expose this exploitation on their own, how these people put out this information for free, how you can watch so many vegan documentaries on youtube with no cost.
Vegucated (2011)
Not vegan enough
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.
PlantPure Nation (2015)
Great effort to spread education about nutrition
Plantpure Nation is a program developed by Campbell's son, the father wrote the famous China nutrition study and now I have to read it for sure. Several other authors feature Michel Greger and David Robinson Simon. The program established itself by introducing the plant based diet to a small place with tons of meat eaters called Mebane.
This film goes over the process of getting support and laws for healthier eating. It shows false advertising and the lack of knowledge of pharmacologists, the lack of education they get over nutrition and how they don't get much time to do anything, but prescribe a tablet. There is an abundance of advertisements who play down the roles of exercise and adequate diet.
The editing at the start of the film is kinda weird, I watched the official upload on youtube, but the quality is not the best and just like the H. O. P. E. documentary this should appeal to an aged population the best. Unlike that documentary this doesn't go as much on the basics of veganism, it just goes over the health and specifically the effort to better the health of the American population.
I knew nothing about Plantpure Nation, but it seems like a very fun way to bring people to try out plant based meals. This wasn't only for fun and they tracked down the dropped cholesterol levels via blood tests which in all cases dropped significantly only in 10 days. This is a very convincing method and the efforts of this project have considerably increased since this movie's release. It is so cool how they filmed all their process and then could make a movie out of it.
It was fun seeing Kentucky politicians panic over the plant based diet being mentioned in their parlament. This is utmost motivating and all the accounts regular people gave as to how the plant based diet improved their lives was pleasant to hear. It was pleasant to hear them as well as to be so passionate and baffled about the effort of nutritionists, societies in general refuse to hear them.
This documentary also mentions local vegetable farms and particularly how in America from 7 million they went down to 2 million. Fast food and meat became so accessible in America that people found it hard there to find the healthy options in certain places which is baffling.
I am interested in their other program they mention at the end and I hope it has a movie.
Hope for All: Unsere Nahrung - unsere Hoffnung (2016)
A great movie for the older citizens
This movie interviews a voluminous number of vegan experts, people who benefited from veganism and saved their and the nonhuman animal lives with it. It portrays meat as unappealing and as a health hazard, at the start it shows overweight people enjoying meat. In contrast it has a plethora of imagery where plant based meals are shown in positive and community building light. It jam packs tons of basic education and every basic reason as to why one would want to go vegan. It has gorgeous shots of gardens and overjoyed animals playing.
My guess is that it targets the elderly and the fact that they worry about their health-
It seems budgeted and has a feel of an infomercial, the camera often doesn't move although it produces high quality shots. Maybe there were stock videos used, I wouldn't be surprised. The music is elevator music. The footage would feel very natural on a TV screen and could draw in people who watch TV on the regular. Those types of people would be of an old age so it is strategic to only show animal exploitation later. Some of the wording is off and commits logical fallacies, but the core information is correct. The camera work in the later part of the movie seems improved compared to the start. There are low quality graphs and artworks in the movie.
I was ecstatic about seeing the authors of various vegan books be present in this documentary. I haven't read their books yet but it was exciting to get to see them and also to recognize them from social media. This movie's existence is good and we need all sorts of vegan representations.
If you are already vegan you won't get much out of watching this one and if you are not old enough or you are well read I think other documentaries might appeal way more to you. I found this on youtube and there is an abundance of vegan documentaries on youtube. I recommend you to write a review as well if you watch the movie or any vegan movie to further support vegan creators and spread the message.
Earthlings (2005)
This movie is not that much younger than me :*(
I finished another classic animal rights documentary. It starts by defining speciesism and showcases how it's similar to other social injustices. Then it goes to show how our pets get killed and how we tend to resort to the cheapest methods available which are the most painful. Pets, or a better word for them- companions are nonhuman animals who most people want to protect and it is a good strategy to start with them.
This movie uses a lot of language that animal rights activists would use and mentions the animal holocaust. It is quite a dated movie now so the recordings are quite blurry which made it a bit easier for me to watch than the movie Dominion. It has a soundtrack by Moby which is of such good quality and it has these sombre and melodic tones, sometimes it's quite elevating which I am not sure how to feel about when confronted with the most horrific images of exploitation, but it is amazing and can draw in people's emotions. This movie has a narrator with a calm voice and tone, they explain all this in a friendly and compassionate manner.
I loved the section on vivisection because in terms of science I haven't looked up how the animals get abused. We like to develop the most brutal contraptions for the sake of science, to push the boundaries of pain too much. I write loved because it contained awakening information, but it's quite horrific, it feels like we enjoy establishing as many methods of how we can torture animals as a species while at the same time we haven't even identified them all or categorized them. We turn our attention away from planet regenerative and eco efforts and instead put our focus on violence. There's a good quote by Leo Tolstoy near the end of the movie that captures this "as long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields". This also ties in how all oppressions are related.
There are a lot of abusive practices mentioned, pointless entertainments at the expense of animals and there are sections where there is blood everywhere on the screen. It is surreal how we let this happen on large scales and how it all happens out of sight. Most people would become vegetarians if they saw it, but hopefully they would go vegan as well. Veganism is the logical followup of "veg"etari"an"ism afterall.
The end of the movie discusses how we are all the same and feel the same pain and are made with similar moulds. How we are all earthlings and gives montages of pretty animals in nature. Very slay as our culture would say, I wonder why the word slay is a part of our positive slang. The way we allow this to happen is curious, the way how our language is shaped to hide the true experiences of ourselves and others. I will be watching more of these documentaries, we all need to watch and consume the truth behind closed doors, slaughterhouses.