If you're looking for inspiration or something to reaffirm your vegan lifestyle, these documentaries will hit the spot.
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What the Health
This documentary explores the links between the consumption of animal products and disease, and advises viewers that the one healthy way to eat involves cutting out all animal products. What the Health also exposes the billions of dollars at stake in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industries.
Cowspiracy
This ground-breaking environmental documentary exposes how factory farming is decimating the planet’s natural resources – and why this crisis has been largely ignored by major environmental groups. The film also looks at various environmental concerns, including global warming, deforestation, water use, ocean dead zones, and suggests that animal agriculture is the primary source of environmental deconstruction.
Vegucated
This documentary follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for 6 weeks in an effort to get healthier. Vegucated explores the challenges people face when converting to a vegan diet.
Hungry for Change
This documentary exposes the shocking truth behind diets and weight loss, and how the food industry has been feeding consumers with tricks and lies.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead explores the story of Joe Cross, whose body has been trashed by steroids, obesity and autoimmune diseases. The documentary follows him in his journey to drink only fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days in an effort to lose weight and reclaim his health.
Food Choices
This documentary examines the world’s diet and points to food choices as the culprits for declining health as well as a major cause of climate change.
In Defense of Food
Journalist Michael Pollan examines the industrially driven Western diet to show how it has ruined our health, then offers solutions for the future.