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Documentary: Cowspiracy

Documentary: Cowspiracy

Posted on October 2, 2017January 24, 2023

Wow. Just wow. That was my response after watching the documentary Cowspiracy. I just sat there, flabbergasted. But then I took a look at my personal values and beliefs and decided things were going to change, for good. I watched Cowspiracy in January of 2016. Ik was then in the middle of an experiment. In January 2016 I ate vegetarian for one month to see if I could pull it off. That month I also did some research about animal products and watched Cowspiracy. One thing I knew for sure then: I wasn’t going to be a vegetarian for one month. I was doing it for life.

It Took Long

I waited too long, I should have shared this documentary earlier. Sorry! Because if there’s one documentary I can name so far that every human being should see, it’s Cowspiracy. Since a short while I’ve been following the course sustainable accommodation at school. When they asked if anyone followed a vegetarian diet, I raised my hand. I knew both of the teachers eat meat and so I asked them if they’d seen the documentary. They hadn’t. But, they did ask me to send them a link so that we could see it in class. Then I realized I hadn’t shared it on here either.

Changed my Life

Cowspiracy has changed my life along with other documentaries. After this one month of trying to eat vegetarian I continued and I have been eating vegetarian for almost two years now. I am even in the transition to veganism. I eat vegan during the day, but at dinner I eat whatever mom cooks for us. Maybe the documentary won’t have such an effect on you, but I doubt it. Eating meat can never be sustainable, it is destroying our planet. In the documentary they even say that you can’t call yourself an environmentalist if you eat meat. Wow. I hope you’ll watch the documentary and think about switching to a vegetarian diet too (unless you’ve tried it and it compromises your health or you’re somehow not able to follow a vegetarian diet).

‘Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet’ – Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-Winning Director of “The Cove”

Cowspiracy

I think Cowspiracy is a documentary that is eye-opener for a lot of people like me. I already thought I lived sustainable because I took steps towards a zero waste lifestyle. This shows that the will to live sustainable is there, but I just didn’t know the impact of eating animal products. That’s where the documentary gets in. Cowspiracy tells the story of Kip Anderson. Anderson wants to live more sustainable and so he starts showing shorter, cycling more and recycling to name a few things. All the initiatives we think about when we want to live more sustainable. But when Anderson does research about sustainability he finds out the horrible truth. The things he does are just tiny, tiny things. Eating animal products is the biggest problem. This is explained in Cowspiracy. We should quit eating animal products if we want a sustainable future.

Go Vegan

It basically comes down to the fact that veganism is one of the best ways to fight climate change. Maybe even the best. Eating animal products causes a lot of methane emissions, water scarcity, hunger around the world, it takes most of the land we have for producing food and it is the biggest contributor to deforestation. Wow. Yes, there is that wow again. This might be a spoiler but I think it’s too important to keep from you.

Cowspiracy is a must watch for everyone, really.

Liefs,
Romee

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Hi! My name is Romee Hoeksma and I am on a journey to an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle in which I have a more positive than negative impact on the beautiful planet earth. On this blog you can follow my journey to a life with only positive impact. At this blog you can find all sorts of things, from tips to recipes to personal experiences, but most of all fun (I hope!). I write about how I want to change the world, but don’t look at it as if I’m judging you. If anything, I like responses from my dear readers the most, so don’t hesitate to contact me or respond to any of my posts!

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Dit zijn vegan aanraders in Warschau, Polen ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ. De nummer 1 in dit lijstje is voor mij wel Veganda, en dan vooral het voorgerecht: die boontjes ๐Ÿ˜. Maar dit is echt nog lang niet alles. Warschau heeft me enorm verrast qua vegan opties, echt fantastisch! Hoi! Op dit account deel ik tips om duurzaam/eco-positief te leven. Maar! Het is ook gewoon mijn persoonlijke account waar ik dingen deel over mezelf. En dus leek het me tof om een kleine introductie te schrijven over mij ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ. So, here it goes; Okรฉ, ik weet niet waarom ik dacht dat deze overgangen mooi zouden worden ๐Ÿ˜‚. Ik post het toch maar, want ik vond het te grappig en tja, alle outfits zijn wel echt 100% tweedehands.. De afgelopen jaren heb ik geleerd hoe ik met weinig tot geen olie lekkere gerechten op tafel kan zetten (helemaal plantaardig uiteraard) ๐ŸŒฏ. Weten hoe en waarom ik dat doe? Ik schreef er een artikel over die je nu kan vinden via de link in mijn bio. Dit is al het vegan eten wat ik at in Bratislava, Slowakije ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ. De stad heeft me verbaasd, want er zijn echt veel vegan restaurants. Moet je er 1 kiezen? Ga dan voor Balans Bistro, die is echt het beste. Vandaag maakte in voor het eerst sinds in veganistisch leef (6 jaar) weer eens quiche! Want ik kon nooit echt een simpel receptje vinden voor vegan quiche en dat schrok me af. Tot vandaag, want ik vond een recept van de Albert Heijn, met vegan kookroom en vegan ei van Plant B die ze sinds dit jaar verkopen. Op deze manier is het echt een makkie en quiche is dan ook zeker toegevoegd aan mijn kookportfolio! Ik ga dit vaker maken, en ook verschillende varianten. Het is zรณ makkelijk, maar wel heel lekker. Vandaag zat er eigenlijk alleen broccoli in, maar ik ben benieuwd naar wat nog meer mogelijk is. Vegan spekjes lijken me er bijvoorbeeld heerlijk in! ๐Ÿฅ“ Als je gaat wandelen/hiken, kan je heel makkelijk positieve impact maken! Neem een klein zakje of tasje mee en raap al het afval wat je tegen komt op: easy peasy ๐Ÿšฎ. Vandaag verscheen het laatste artikel op mijn blog over onze interrail avonturen. Je leest over hoe we met de trein van Kopenhagen terug naar Amsterdam reisden met de trein ๐Ÿšƒ. De foto past er niet echt bij haha, hier ben ik namelijk aan het genieten van een vegan milkshake (met herbruikbaar rietje!) in Warschau, maar ach. Ik ben van mening dat je niet ver hoeft te reizen om mooie dingen te zien. Europa is prachtig! Dit is Boheems Zwitserland in Tsjechiรซ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ.

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