Forks Over Knives (2011)

⭐ 8.5/10

(Originally written by Beans)

This is another documentary but about food and health. The idea with the title is that we would use forks to eat plants rather than knives to cut meat.

Again, this is pretty dated and I feel particularly with health and food the data changes rapidly so it did feel somewhat dated. However, the science remains that what we eat fuels our body but also kills us. They walked us through a few doctors and their patients lives, of how they reversed type two diabetes, breast cancer, arthritis, and many other sicknesses and diseases by adopting a whole foods plant based diet. We have been led to believe that we need meet and dairy products for calcium and protein. While there is some truth to that this documentary mostly debunks those theories.

Another aspect they talked about was how the meat diet is doing more to contribute to climate change than the entire automotive industry. We’re spending billions of dollars to fatten up cows when a portion of that could be used to feed the millions of starving people in the world.

This doc really got me fired up to adopt a plant based diet. I believe it’s definitely a worthy pursuit because I wanna be healthy and not die of heart disease by age 45. If this doesn’t convince you to gravitate towards veganism I don’t know what will.