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Mar 13, 2017 · Cowspiracy, now streaming on Netflix, offers a powerful and provocative indictment of animal agriculture as the number one global cause of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Cowspiracy is a 2014 documentary film in which director and narrators Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn explore the destruction that animal agriculture has on our overall environment and the true path to sustainability.
- Cows Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Not by A Long Shot
- Inflating Livestock Emissions by Misinterpreting Basic Biology
- Changing The Impact of Methane
- And Who Is in Cahoots?
Central to Cowspiracy’s conspiracy theory is the supposed “fact” that a 2009 study found that 51% of all greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture. A good deal of the movie is taken up with interviews with people from environmental organizations, such as the Rainforest Action Network, Oceana, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, who...
How did Goodland and Anhang come up with 51%, rather than the scientific consensus that livestock are currently responsible for about 15% of global greenhouse gases(which includes direct emissions from the animals as well as emissions from feed production, land use change, and manure)? The biggest single difference is that Goodland and Anhang also ...
There is one important difference when it comes to a relatively small number of animal species. These are the ruminants, which include domesticated animals such as cows, sheep, and goats as well as wild ones such as deer and antelope. Their digestive system includes a “rumen,” which contains microbes that can break down cellulose, which most animal...
I must admit that there’s another, more personal, reason I find it hard to believe that there’s a massive conspiracy among NGOs and scientists to conceal the impact of animal agriculture on the climate. That’s because my UCS colleagues and I—scientists at an NGO that focuses on climate change—have been writing and speaking extensively about the cli...
The film educates viewers about how animal agriculture is the leading cause of “deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation industry, is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean ‘dead zones,’ and ...
Provocative docu has some graphic scenes of animal cruelty. Read Common Sense Media's Cowspiracy review, age rating, and parents guide.
- A.U.M. Films
- Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn
With Bruce Hamilton, Kip Andersen, Al Gore, Heather Cooley. Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
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