Scarica recensione film - cowspiracy e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Luca Puller 5’DL Film review - Cowspiracy A film that I strongly recommend. Cowspiracy - the Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary film which explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. The film looks at various environmental concerns, including climate change, water consumption, deforestation and ocean dead zones, and identifies livestocks as the main cause of the environmental destruction. The documentary was directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn in which they investigate the policies on this issue of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and so on… The filmmakers have done some research and have found that all the things humans can do to reduce their carbon outputs and reduce water use are a small piece compared to the impact that farm animals have on the environment. In other words, while governments are telling us that we need to take short showers and to drive electric cars, simply eating less meat would do far more to help the planet. Carbon dioxide, methane and water are far more impacted by cows… as well as pigs, chickens and other animals raised for food. As an example, the impact on the amount of water used to produce one McDonald’s hamburger is far more than would be saved if a person stops showering for several days. (1 hamburger consists of the use of almost 2500 litres of water). Afterwards this film also talked about the oceans that are being overfished. Instead of selective harvests, gill netting is essentially killing everything. Some fishes that are caught and usually not eaten by humans, die for nothing. In the beginning I didn’t understand how all this relates to farm animals, but I kept watching… Later I agreed with everything I saw in the film. It really had a lot of great points and I liked how the various environmental protection groups never wanted to talk about livestocks, probably because this wouldn’t help them in fund raising or in public policy. Then it became obvious to me that the authors were vegans because they weren’t asking for less meat, eggs and dairy consumption, but they were prioritizing no meat, no eggs and no dairy. Personally, I know that they are right nevertheless I didn’t like their absolutist thinking. I believe their message, in this part, was too strong in order to convince people who are watching to become vegan, and this explains why they show a close-up of a duck getting its head hacked off and covered in blood. And
