Resources
Orgs Doing Good
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https://thehumaneleague.org/
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https://www.ciwf.com/
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https://www.greenerbydefault.com/
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https://www.newrootsinstitute.org/
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https://mercyforanimals.org/
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https://animaloutlook.org/
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https://www.reducetarian.org/
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https://sentientmedia.org/
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https://animalequality.org/
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https://thesavemovement.org/
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https://www.farmsanctuary.org/
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https://uplandspeaksanctuary.org/
Films and Trailers
The Game Changers
The Game Changers is a 2018 documentary film about about athletes who have adopted plant-based diets. The film interviews science experts in various fields, showcases success stories of athletes that have adopted such diets, highlights favorable scientific studies, and champions what the filmmakers argue are benefits of plant-based diets for both athletes and non-athletes.
The Right to Harm
This compelling film captures the delicate dance between humanity and the environment, highlighting the urgency of conservation. Through breathtaking visuals and thought-provoking narratives, it inspires a collective commitment to safeguard our planet's beauty and biodiversity for generations to come.
Earthlings
Narrated by Academy Award Nominee Joaquin Phoenix and featuring music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby, EARTHLINGS is a documentary film about humankind's complete economic dependence on animals raised for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.
Meat Me Halfway
The path to going plant-based has obvious upsides, but it can also be isolating and difficult. Shouldn’t there be some middle ground for people looking to make a change without totally upending their lives? Leader of the Reducetarian movement, Brian Kateman explores this issue through the lens of his own personal decision to reduce eating meat. Grappling with how to sort through conflicting advice, Brian seeks a practical path forward.
Veducated
Vegucated is a 2011 American documentary film that explores the challenges of converting to a vegan diet by following three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. The documentary addresses the resistance that some people feel towards vegetarianism and veganism, the disconnect between farm animals and the purchasing of meat, the origins of omnivorism, and the ethical, environmental and health benefits of a vegan diet. During the filming, participants visited an abandoned slaughterhouse and investigated the reality of intensive animal farming in the US. Of their own accord, they chose to trespass on a factory farm to see for themselves, and became passionate about their new-found cause.
Invisible Vegan
The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that begins with the personal story of director Jasmine Leyva, a 30-year-old black actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Leyva invites the viewer on her journey of changing to a plant-based lifestyle, and how it inspired her to explore veganism, by researching the history and narrative of food over the centuries in the African-American community, from Africa through slavery to unhealthy dietary patterns that are a problem today.
The Smell of Money
What is the price some pay for the world's pork? North Carolina residents take on one of the world's most powerful companies in a fight for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a life free from the stench of pig feces.
The Ghosts in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and photographic lens of acclaimed photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, we become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. The film follows Jo-Anne over the course of a year as she photographs animal stories in North America and in Europe. Each story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research.
The Last Pig
In the rolling hills of Upstate New York, a farmer is in crisis: after years of raising pigs, he can no longer bear the ultimate act of betrayal. This award-winning film chronicles his final year on the farm, capturing in intimate detail the farmer’s personal upheaval as he questions his beliefs and the value of life. The Last Pig is an immersive snapshot, a tale of choice, grit, and the changing landscape of animal agriculture. The farmer’s inner reflections share his struggle to align life with values, and through the story’s simple intimacy, the farmer’s moral quandary quietly becomes our own.
Eating Animals
Eating Animals tells the story of the beginning of the end of factory farming. Produced with Academy Award™-winner Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer, the film is the feature-length adaptation of Foer’s critically acclaimed book of the same name that starts out with a simple question—where do our eggs, dairy and meat come from? Through the intimate narratives of several farmers dedicated to bringing their trade—and the way we eat—back to its roots, the film explores the notion of stepping away from the practices of the past 40 years that have polluted our environment, endangered our health, and caused us all to be complicit in the inhumane treatment of animals. Looking at the costs we’ve incurred as our country has become dominated by massive industrial complexes designed to feed the masses, EATING ANIMALS paints a picture of a future where traditional farming is no longer a distant memory, but is instead the only way forward.
Articles and Books on Animal Welfare, Veganism and the Environment
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Brian Kateman(Reducetarian Foundation), Meat me halfway(book and documentary)
Philip Lumbery(Compassion in World Farming), Farmageddon(book)
Philip Lumbery(Compassion in World Farming), 60 Harvests left
AyshaAkthar(Center for Contemporary Science), Our Symphony with Animals
Leah Garces (President of Mercy for Animals), Grilled. Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry.
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Michael Greger,Hownot to Die(book and lecture)
Michael Greger, Hownot to Die Cookbook
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, The Plant-Based Athlete
Daniel Austin, The Way of the Vegan Meathead
Robert Cheekeand Vanessa Espinoza, Vegan muscle
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David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics
Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spiraand the Animal Rights Movement
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals