Meat the Truth and the Meatrix

Last night I finally watched Meat the Truth. Meat the Truth is a documentary, presented by Marianne Thieme (leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals), which forms an addendum to earlier films that have been made about climate change and global warming. Although An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore succeeded in drawing public attention to the issue of global warming, it ignored one of the most important causes of climate change: intensive livestock production. According to Meat the Truth livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars and trucks added together. The calculations used in the film derive from and have been validated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO), the World Watch Institute, the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Free University Amsterdam and numerous other authoritative sources. That means that you can do more for the environment by eating less meat than by leaving your car at home. You can find more background information on the Meat the Truth website.

The documentary also features the first episode of a cartoon called The Meatrix. Follow the adventures of Leo, Moopheus and Chickity below.

The Meatrix

The Meatrix II: Revolting

The Meatrix II 1/2

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These episodes show some of the problems concerning meat and dairy production. If you would like more information on this topic, I suggest you read the book The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins. For me this was truly a life changing book. The book comes up with facts on meat and dairy, that I had never heard of before. I’ve been vegan ever since I read it.

Does that mean everybody should be vegan from now on? Well, that could be a big step for a lot of people. What you can do in the short term is eat less meat and dairy. For instance, make one day in the week a meat-less day. This can be as simple as replacing the meat at dinner with a tofu burger. If more people do this, this can become a great step in saving our planet. And this can also do wonders for your own health too.

Gerber

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