Aaron Spitz – Author, The Penis Book, a plant based book on penile function (yes you read that right… just wait) Dean Ornish – Author of Undo-it!, leads vegan retreats and sells online programs and developer of the Ornish Diet (very low fat, high carb, low protein) Virtually all of the ‘experts’ interviewed in the film sell vegan products, books, or profit from veganism Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor, part owner of ‘Ladder’, a supplement company that sells some vegan products.Suzy Amis Cameron, Executive Producer – Founder, Verdiant Foods.James Cameron, Executive Producer – You know him for his films (Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Avatar), but he also is the founder and CEO of Verdiant Foods, an organic pea protein company.Thanks to Meredith Root and this article for pointing these out so I can validate them as well. Let’s review their undisclosed conflicts of interest shall we? I am being honest about my biases, which is more than I can say for The Game Changers film. I’ve even coached people who have been vegan. I’m not married to an idea and I will concede when there is evidence to the contrary. Also, keep in mind I have been extremely critical of low carb zealots and carnivore diet idiots in the past. But I am going to list all my references with clickable links so you can read for yourself and make your own decisions. If you believe that means I’m bought and paid for by ‘big animal’ there’s probably nothing I’m going to say that you are going to listen to anyway. Some of my research in graduate school was sponsored by the Egg Nutrition Center as well as the National Dairy Council. Here is my scientific analysis of the film and it’s claims.įirst, I want to get my biases out of the way. So I decided to watch it and form an opinion since it seemed to convince so many people. I was immediately admonished by some in the vegan community for my statements with them saying that I hadn’t even seen the film so how could I have an opinion? Fair enough. When I first found out about this film (I’m not going to refer to it as a documentary), I said it seemed disingenuous that a man (Arnold) who built an entire empire in the fitness industry and then the world, did so through eating meat and in the last part of his life is now going to espouse the virtues of a vegan diet. It’s sexier to scare people and fear monger to get views. Presenting accurate scientific information isn’t sexy. These were not documentaries, they were story-based narratives that twisted scientific information for their own personal gain.Ī real documentary takes opinions from both sides, presents evidence, and lets the viewer formulate their own opinion. A real documentary takes opinions from both sides, presents evidence, and lets the viewer formulate their own opinion. All of them steaming piles of propaganda and BS. I am pretty sure I have PTSD from the terrible food ‘documentaries’ I’ve seen so far such as Fed Up, What the Health, and Supersize Me. I must admit, when I first heard about this, I was extremely skeptical. Now those are some heavy hitting hollywood names so there was a lot of buzz about this documentary. A clarification regarding energy emissions as opposed to merely transportation emissionsĪbout 6 weeks ago I started hearing rumblings about an upcoming ‘documentary’ produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger about vegan athletes.Updated on November 20th, 2019 at 6:17pm EST
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