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Your Preference: Letting Agribusiness Make Your Decisions

All Jacked Up talks about how agriculture has changed to agribusiness. I had never really thought about it, but they make some interesting points.  They claim that there is a small dose of antibiotics in each meal, which help the … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Sensitive to Slaughter?

This movie, All Jacked Up, brought up something that really alarmed me, and that I didn’t realize or know before. It referred to the book, Slaughterhouse, with its claim that when pigs are killed at one slaughterhouse (150,000 pigs are … Continue reading

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What Do Cows Eat?

Cows and fish are being taught to eat corn. For cows, they would naturally eat grass, not corn. The corn makes them fat more quickly. According to the movie, Food, Inc. animals stand in ankle deep manure. 400 animals are … Continue reading

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Why Do People Go Vegan?

The movie, Veducated, takes three people through the “trial” of exploring going “vegan”. Although the movie started out slow, it provides a lot of education that was interesting and helpful. So what exactly is a vegan? It is someone who … Continue reading

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Different Reasons People Become Vegan

In the movie Veducated, each week focused on different reasons or learning points about why the author choose to go vegan, and the training she was taking these three “volunteers” through to explore becoming vegan. Another week talked about factory … Continue reading

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The China Study: Plant to Animal Diet

T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, was interviewed during the Vegetarian Summerfest, in the movie, Veducated. He has a degree in nutritional biochemistry and has been a Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He was part … Continue reading

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