Documentary: Eating Our Way to Extinction

 The documentary eating our way to extinction is now available on YouTube. Watch it here

It’s fantastic to see that a celebrity such as Kate Winslet has hopped on board as narrator. Good news: Kate is vegetarian and her husband vegan! It’s wonderful to see big names joining the cause to mobilise more people to save our environment.

The documentary opens with a tree falling and in the deafening silence that followed I felt my heart contract. When a masked man with his morphed voice starts talking about the Brazilian forest, I got goosebumps. It’s exactly the attitude of “we do what we want” that has the whole world in the climatic mess we are currently seeing.

The documentary proceeds with stunning shots of mother nature and an appearance by the director explaining how they have spent four years of filming to show the threat of ecological collapse. But he ends with a tinge of hope.

Our lust for more and more meat has contributed significantly to the warming of our atmosphere. We will keep on wanting until there is nothing left to want. However the biggest thing you and I can do is change our diets.

The damage caused by animal agriculture is undeniable and further exacerbated by the inefficiency of our current food production systems. In addition to this the big businesses behind animal agriculture do not want to loose money and all we have to do is vote with our wallets! Please do yourselves a favour and watch the documentary. You may now some of the information already but the more people watch it the more we can spread the word and change the world. We have to. We are running out of time.

This all reminds me of the following passage from Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien:

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand.

But, I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding onto something.

What are we holding onto Sam?

That there’s something good in this world, Mr, Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.