I agree. I think it is an incredible documentary and beautifully filmed.
Give Game Changers a go. Honestly, there's so much in it that will be eye opening. It certainly was to me. The survive but not thrive part for example. Evidence from the science suggests quite the opposite. They do blood tests on athletes after a meal containing meat and a vegan meal and it shows quite staggering impacts.
Admittedly it is perhaps one side of the story and there may be more to it, but from those involved in the documentary the vegan diet will enable humans to thrive. Plenty of elite sportsman are vegan. Animals are just the middle men when it comes to protein remember!
Anyway I'll stop shoving this down your throat now!
Game Changers is certainly an interesting documentary, and changing your diet to include more fruit, veg, and healthier wholefoods is clearly a good thing. However, it's not without criticism, some of which is pretty valid I think.
Some of the studies it cites are criticised for being more observational with small sample sizes where results have been extrapolated into larger claims without significant evidence. The bit with the guy in the lab coat showing the cloudy blood after eating meat looks good on the documentary, but it's not exactly gold standard scientific methodology.
Thirdly, James Cameron is behind production of the doc and he is now, funnily enough, a vegan who is an investor in Verdient foods which produces plant-based protein. No matter how well-meaning it might be, I think it is worth noting there could be a little bit of an agenda behind the program.
Having said that, I think there is a lot of value in trying to change to a more plant-based, wholefood diet, for us and the planet. My friend has been vegan for years and my other half has been vegetarian the last few. More for ethical reasons initially than health, but they always note how they never seem to catch colds or things like that. I think a lot of it though is down to the fact that replacing junk food with healthy fruit and veg is always going to make you feel better, think one of the guys interviewed in the doc basically admits that he used to live on KFC before changing his diet.
I'm not conviced by the whole 'all meat is bad' argument. Well-sourced, lean chicken definitely has a place as part of a healthy, balanced diet in my book but I think the documentary is generally a good thing overall.
