Note: they use the term Vegan, but I prefer WFPB because 1) you can still eat an unhealthy vegan diet and 2) I think there are negative connotations associated with the word vegan. Just saying the word immediately puts people on the defensive.
This film does a great job covering the health, environmental and ethical impact of eating meat in a short, concise manner. There are lots of great quotes, but here are a few of my favorite;
"The U.S. government is responsible for the fast food crisis, the health crisis, the environmental crisis by subsidizing this horrible food, by subsidizing animal agriculture." - Jane Velez-Mitchell, journalist, activist
"Our tax dollars are being used to subsidize food that kills us." - T. Colin Campbell, PhD
"It's recognized by the American Insurance Industry that there are only 2 dietary plans that can reverse heart disease. There's no meat in those programs. They're plant-based programs." - Joel Kahn, M.D.
"If that's all a plant-based diet can do, reverse the #1 or #2 killer, of men and women, shouldn't that kind of be the default diet until proven otherwise? And the fact that it can also prevent, arrest and reverse other leading killers like type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure, it'd seem to make the case for plant-based simply overwhelming." - Michael Greger, M.D.
[Eating vegan] "is much easier than I thought it'd be." - Craig Robinson, actor
"The mainstream media will never tell our story, because the advertisers are the meat, dairy and pharmaceutical industries. Those industries stand to lose big if American and the world goes plant-based." - Jane Velez-Mitchell
"You can't really be an environmentalist and not be vegan." - Simone Reyes
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