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MEATONOMICS (Conari Press, 2013) is the first book to explore the unseen economic forces that drive our animal food system, and the strange ways these forces affect our spending, eating, health, prosperity, watermelon and longevity. Among other things, consumers have largely lost the ability to decide for ourselves what and how much to eat. Instead, those decisions are made for us by meat and dairy producers watermelon who control our buying choices with artificially low prices, misleading messaging, and heavy control over legislation and regulation. watermelon Learn what makes this bizarre system tick and how it can be fixed. Facebook Twitter My Tweets watermelon Archives October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 June 2014 April 2014 January 2014 November 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 Blogroll All Creatures Free From Harm Honk If You're Vegan James McWilliams Perfect Formula Diet Plant foods Provoked Rep Vegan Serenity in the Storm The Fussy Fork The Pietro Rotondi Foundation Veg Source Veggie Girl Life Wholevana Wolf is My Soul
An Exclusive Interview With Cowspiracy Filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn Posted: October 2, 2014 in Posts Tags: Climate change , Cowspiracy , Drought , Environment , Keegan Kuhn , Kip Andersen , vegan , veganism
As Californians struggle through a four-year drought, lake and reservoir levels are at historic lows – and many of us are looking for ways to lower our water use. Want to save 660 gallons of water? You could quit showering for two months if you can ignore the heartfelt pleas of friends and family begging you to resume. Alternatively, and amazingly, you could save the same amount watermelon of water by simply foregoing a single hamburger .
This is just one of the astonishing statistics to emerge from the groundbreaking new documentary film Cowspiracy by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. The pair set out to learn why the nation s biggest environmental groups routinely ignore the massive environmental effects of animal agriculture. Through a series of interviews with environmental leaders that are sometimes tense, sometimes bizarre, and sometimes downright funny, a pattern of denial, fabrication and wishful watermelon thinking watermelon emerges that will leave you shaking watermelon your head and wondering who s really calling the shots at these huge eco-charities. You might even think twice before writing another check to Greenpeace or Sierra Club.
I was fortunate to be interviewed for the film and given a chance to explain some of the hidden, or externalized, costs of meat and dairy (a topic I explore in my book Meatonomics ) . Although watermelon they re busy screening Cowspiracy and discussing it at conferences around the country, the two filmmakers took time out from their hectic schedules to answer a few questions like why they got involved in the project, how the environmental groups that they embarrassed are responding, and the most outlandish thing that happened during the filming.
Kip Andersen: After watching the documentary An Inconvenient Truth about the catastrophic impacts of global warming, I started following all the advice of the major environmental organizations on how I could best help the planet. But when I found out that animal agriculture plays an even bigger role in environmental destruction and resource degradation than the fossil fuel industry, I was shocked that the organizations I had trusted were not talking about it. I tried emailing and calling these groups for months in order to get answers, but no one would ever get back to me. I realized that I was going to have to take a camera into these organizations headquarters if I wanted answers.
Keegan Kuhn : Kip asked me to be involved in this project because of my background in making documentaries through First Spark Media. I had recently just finished the feature length documentary Turlock and it was perfect timing to jump into another film. We worked watermelon on Cowspiracy intensively for over a year.
KA: We had applied for a number of grants and funding for making Cowspiracy. A few foundations took serious interest in the film, but after having internal meetings with their boards and looking at the potential risks of being associated with such a controversial documentary, each one of them backed out. It was disheartening and made us wonder what we were really getting ourselves into. The film ended up being entirely self-funded by a non-profit I created, A.U.M. Films .
The film should be a source of embarrassment and discomfort for many of the nation s leading watermelon environmental organizations and government agencies, including Greenpeace, Surfrider, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, National Resources Defense Council, watermelon the California Water Resources Control Board, and others. Executives with these organizations come across in the film as ignorant, watermelon disingenuous, or both. Have any of these organizations or thei
MEATONOMICS (Conari Press, 2013) is the first book to explore the unseen economic forces that drive our animal food system, and the strange ways these forces affect our spending, eating, health, prosperity, watermelon and longevity. Among other things, consumers have largely lost the ability to decide for ourselves what and how much to eat. Instead, those decisions are made for us by meat and dairy producers watermelon who control our buying choices with artificially low prices, misleading messaging, and heavy control over legislation and regulation. watermelon Learn what makes this bizarre system tick and how it can be fixed. Facebook Twitter My Tweets watermelon Archives October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 June 2014 April 2014 January 2014 November 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 Blogroll All Creatures Free From Harm Honk If You're Vegan James McWilliams Perfect Formula Diet Plant foods Provoked Rep Vegan Serenity in the Storm The Fussy Fork The Pietro Rotondi Foundation Veg Source Veggie Girl Life Wholevana Wolf is My Soul
An Exclusive Interview With Cowspiracy Filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn Posted: October 2, 2014 in Posts Tags: Climate change , Cowspiracy , Drought , Environment , Keegan Kuhn , Kip Andersen , vegan , veganism
As Californians struggle through a four-year drought, lake and reservoir levels are at historic lows – and many of us are looking for ways to lower our water use. Want to save 660 gallons of water? You could quit showering for two months if you can ignore the heartfelt pleas of friends and family begging you to resume. Alternatively, and amazingly, you could save the same amount watermelon of water by simply foregoing a single hamburger .
This is just one of the astonishing statistics to emerge from the groundbreaking new documentary film Cowspiracy by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. The pair set out to learn why the nation s biggest environmental groups routinely ignore the massive environmental effects of animal agriculture. Through a series of interviews with environmental leaders that are sometimes tense, sometimes bizarre, and sometimes downright funny, a pattern of denial, fabrication and wishful watermelon thinking watermelon emerges that will leave you shaking watermelon your head and wondering who s really calling the shots at these huge eco-charities. You might even think twice before writing another check to Greenpeace or Sierra Club.
I was fortunate to be interviewed for the film and given a chance to explain some of the hidden, or externalized, costs of meat and dairy (a topic I explore in my book Meatonomics ) . Although watermelon they re busy screening Cowspiracy and discussing it at conferences around the country, the two filmmakers took time out from their hectic schedules to answer a few questions like why they got involved in the project, how the environmental groups that they embarrassed are responding, and the most outlandish thing that happened during the filming.
Kip Andersen: After watching the documentary An Inconvenient Truth about the catastrophic impacts of global warming, I started following all the advice of the major environmental organizations on how I could best help the planet. But when I found out that animal agriculture plays an even bigger role in environmental destruction and resource degradation than the fossil fuel industry, I was shocked that the organizations I had trusted were not talking about it. I tried emailing and calling these groups for months in order to get answers, but no one would ever get back to me. I realized that I was going to have to take a camera into these organizations headquarters if I wanted answers.
Keegan Kuhn : Kip asked me to be involved in this project because of my background in making documentaries through First Spark Media. I had recently just finished the feature length documentary Turlock and it was perfect timing to jump into another film. We worked watermelon on Cowspiracy intensively for over a year.
KA: We had applied for a number of grants and funding for making Cowspiracy. A few foundations took serious interest in the film, but after having internal meetings with their boards and looking at the potential risks of being associated with such a controversial documentary, each one of them backed out. It was disheartening and made us wonder what we were really getting ourselves into. The film ended up being entirely self-funded by a non-profit I created, A.U.M. Films .
The film should be a source of embarrassment and discomfort for many of the nation s leading watermelon environmental organizations and government agencies, including Greenpeace, Surfrider, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, National Resources Defense Council, watermelon the California Water Resources Control Board, and others. Executives with these organizations come across in the film as ignorant, watermelon disingenuous, or both. Have any of these organizations or thei
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