The climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our generation. And the foremost way for the typical consumer to reduce their impact on Earth is to cut out or significantly restrict their consumption of animal products.
Narrated by Kate Winslet, Eating Our Way to Extinction takes viewers on a trip around the planet to places like the Amazon rainforests, Taiwanese Mountains, and Scottish Coastlines, to demonstrate how choosing plant-based foods over meat, fish, and dairy can buy us precious time as the world copes with and fights to prevent further global warming.
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You might wonder how diet can play such a critical role in protecting our planet and the well-being of all life that depends on it. The case for eating more plants and far fewer animals is overwhelming, so let’s just start with six frightening reasons.
Animal agriculture is…
- the single greatest cause of deforestation.
- responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all global transportation combined.
- the leading cause of ocean dead zones.
- the leading cause of biodiversity loss.
- consuming precious fresh water at a devastating rate: 70 trillion gallons a year.
- the most destructive industry on our planet.
Earth is our home. And every day, we have three invaluable opportunities—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—to help protect it rather than hurt it.
For a heavy dose of truth and motivation, stream Eating Our Way to Extinction tonight.
This is the film future generations will be wishing everyone watched today. —Leonardo DiCaprio
If afterward, you want even more documentary-style inspiration to change the way you eat, check out Vegan-ish? My Top 5 Film Recs to Help You Break on Through to the Other Side.