Cowspiracy accuracy
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Cowspiracy accuracy
To what extent is cowspiracy accurate? Any rational criticisms? Would also be useful in addressing the carnist apologists who are its detractors.
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Re: Cowspiracy accuracy
This is a great thread idea. Can we get a full transcript somewhere? I've only seen it once, but I'd need a breakdown of the facts in order to talk about which are accurate, which are exaggerated, and if any are bullshit.
In general, the thrust of it was right, but some of the statistics seemed a bit out of place, and I'm not sure about some of the 'experts' who were interviewed.
Overall, good documentary that will introduce a lot of people to the environmental issues, but it certainly could be improved to make it more bulletproof to criticism.
In general, the thrust of it was right, but some of the statistics seemed a bit out of place, and I'm not sure about some of the 'experts' who were interviewed.
Overall, good documentary that will introduce a lot of people to the environmental issues, but it certainly could be improved to make it more bulletproof to criticism.
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Re: Cowspiracy accuracy
Here's the subtitles in text form: http://pastebin.com/K2mfxvLZbrimstoneSalad wrote:This is a great thread idea. Can we get a full transcript somewhere? I've only seen it once, but I'd need a breakdown of the facts in order to talk about which are accurate, which are exaggerated, and if any are bullshit.
In general, the thrust of it was right, but some of the statistics seemed a bit out of place, and I'm not sure about some of the 'experts' who were interviewed.
Overall, good documentary that will introduce a lot of people to the environmental issues, but it certainly could be improved to make it more bulletproof to criticism.
It doesn't read very nicely, but it's the closest thing to a transcript we have.
Link to facts and sources: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
The first inconsistency I spot is the first and third fact: the first says animal agriculture accounts for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, the second says it's 51% of worldwide gas emissions. without even counting methane. Maybe the first statistic is only in the USA?
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