Eating Our Way to Extinction

[Plays Sept. 16 one night only in AMC theaters and will be available on various VOD platforms in the future.] Kate Winslet narrates Ludo and Otto Brockway's powerful, eye-opening, educational, insightful, timely, ire-inducing, shocking, controversial, depressing, 95-minute documentary highlighted by stunning cinematography that examines the massive costs in resources to produce animal food—beef, poultry, and fish—for human consumption, including massive deforestation, use of enormous quantities of potable water for growing animal feed, overfishing, producing unhealthy farm-raised fish, polluting of surface water in our oceans, lakes, and rivers and of groundwater worldwide through the use of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer, and antibiotics, and climate change that leads to both drought and flooding affecting food production and consists of candid commentary by indigenous people, former NOAA chief scientist Dr. Sylvia Earle, former U. N. Special Rapporteur professor Olivier de Schutter, senior environmental sustainability researcher and The Future of Food founder Dr. Marco Springmann, lecturer Joanne Kong, economic and political advisor Jeremy Rifkin, Polar Ocean Physics Group head professor Peter Wadhams, zoologist and environment and agriculture researcher Joseph Poore, Food Climate Research Network head Dr. Tara Garnett, physician and researcher Dr. Michael Greger, Virgin Group founder and chairman Richard Branson, food industry and policy consultant Roger Roberts, water management expert Prof. Arjen Hoekstra, Dr. Gemma Newman, entrepreneur and life coach Tony Robbins, Plymouth Marine Lab senior research scientist Dr. Penelope Lindeque, dietician Brenda Davis, The Good Food Institute founder Bruce Friedrich, Nutrition Org. physician Dr. Michael Greger, virologist Dr. Jane Greatorex, environmental activist Taryn Bishop, farm fish investigator Don Staniford, EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, WHO Health Emergency Programme executive director Dr. Michael Ryan, nutritional expert Dr. Udo Erasmus, Brazilian Young Farmers Association president Joaquin Pino, ITPA Conservation founder Mauricio Ruiz, former Queensland government principal scientist Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop, Norwegian fisheries director Liv Holmesfjord, former butchers Juliet Holland-Rose and Doug Maw, and vegan bodybuilders Indira Nadia Fonseca and Stephen Coote.
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