Rating: 9
What do you think would happen if you took three meat-loving New Yorkers and had them try a vegan diet for 6 weeks? That was the question filmmaker Marisa Miller Wolfson wanted to answer when she set out to make Vegucated.
She chooses a woman in her early twenties, a 27 year old man and a middle-aged mother of two to experiment with. She educates them on what exactly a vegan is, what they can and cannot eat and brings them to noted physician Dr. Joel Fuhrman for some baseline medical tests. After six weeks of avoiding animal products she interviews them to see if they have adopted the vegan lifestyle and brings them back to Dr. Fuhrman to repeat the medical tests to see if there has been any change in their bodies. The results are amazing.
Throughout this 75 minute film, the participants and viewers are educated about what it means to be vegan, the differences between vegan and vegetarian and the animal cruelty that drives most people away from meat consumption. In addition to Dr. Fuhrman, they also interview Dr. T. Colin Campbell who is a leading authority on the plant based lifestyle. Dr. Campbell was part of the infamous China Study which looked at 6,500 people in rural China over a period of twenty years. They found the incidence of cancer and heart disease and other preventable illnesses rose as populations began to consume more animal based proteins (meat, eggs, and dairy).
While parts of the film where actually funny, others were a bit hard to take because of the violence animals raised for slaughter have to endure before they end up wrapped in plastic on the grocery store shelves. They don’t show what exactly happens to them, but you do get a realistic idea of what they go through.
If you’re curious about the vegan lifestyle or just want to better understand why a plant based diet is so much better for humans and all living creatures on this planet, I highly recommend you Get Vegucated! You can check this movie out from the library or you can come watch it at the library on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
Review by: Jim
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Rating: 9
