Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (TED Talks)-

Forks over Knives-
This movie was about the health benefits of becoming vegan. This movie was clearly biased because it only presented the facts for one side of the story. While the movie states that dairy and meat products cause cancer and other health complications, humans have been eating meat and dairy for thousands of years. Recent complications are due to eating too much meat, dairy, and eggs. Humans are naturally omnivores. Meat gives us complete proteins and milk gives us calcium. If small doses of these products were so harmful the humans would not have evolved to eat them. Also, the movie does not address fish at all! Fish is full of Omega 3 and Fatty Acids that are essential to our health. Vegans do not eat animal products but the example they used was that Japan being more healthy than America. Japan has a very fish based diet so clearly they are not vegans. While they stated the American government does not support the view of meat and dairy causing cancer because it would mess up their farming system, why do countries such as Japan support this?
This documentary was about a man who decided to eat only McDonald's for 30 days straight and the health complications that ensued. It was a provocative look at the dangers of fast food. Personally, I do not know anyone who eats fast food every day, let alone for every meal. While this movie may apply to many people I thought that it did not really resonate with the students here at ISB. None of us would be insane enough to eat only fast food and most of the time we were just shocked at the fact he decided to mess up his health for a documentary.