Popular science? brainwashing? After reading it, it seems that I believe it, but it's really scientific.

Ruthe 2022-01-19 08:02:55

After watching it, it really caused a lot of psychological impact on me. I even introduced and recommended this documentary to people everywhere, especially if I wanted to make up lessons for my family in the first time, but after thinking about it again, this film is really good. Objective science. In general, I still give 5 stars, which can at least popularize some scientific common sense that everyone should have known long ago, although I do not agree with some of its core views.

Reflecting on it, I feel that the viewpoint of the film is too extreme. The science component is less than the brainwashing component. Junk food, refined food, high fat, high calorie must be punished, but is it really necessary to overdo it and become a vegetarian? So Zhihu asked some questions:

1. Documentary: The secret under the knife and fork (a fork is better than a scalpel), is it science? This documentary seems to have used a lot of scientific experiments to support its views, but how does it feel so one-sided? Many issues have not been clearly stated. Meat eating (omnivorous to be precise) must be unhealthy?

Eating grass must be healthy? 2. In terms of diet, is animal diet or overnutrition or other reasons leading to the high incidence of cancer, heart disease and diabetes?

3. I like sports and fitness. For the time being, I don’t ask whether vegetarianism is good for gaining muscle. I only ask whether vegetarianism can keep people who need a lot of protein healthy?

4 Vegetarianism may also cause obesity due to excessive calorie intake. Doesn't it cause diseases such as cancer or diabetes?

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Extended Reading
  • Athena 2022-03-25 09:01:20

    What's wrong with taking a cult health class

  • Anya 2022-01-19 08:02:55

    Compared with the few vegetarian movies that I saw in the previous two days, the results are too biased and the vegetarian movies are much more objective and not radical. In addition, no matter how gentle the narrative is, this kind of vegetarian videos can always irritate some people inexplicably. Obviously most of the films are from the perspective of human health and environmental pollution, with suggestions rather than moral kidnapping, why opponents still cling to the old-fashioned stalk "protecting animal welfare is hypocritical, why not protect plants" What a mockery... Besides showing that I didn't read the content, I just stepped on my tail and jumped my feet inexplicably?

Forks Over Knives quotes

  • Narrator: It takes over 10 times the amount of energy from fossil fuels to produce a calorie of animal-based food then it does to produce a calorie of plant-based food.

  • Narrator: In Texas, old eating habits die hard.

    Fire Fighter: Meat's almost a sport in Texas. I have several good friends that, they have barbecue teams, that's what they do, that's their sport on weekends.