Tonight, The Girl and I will be watching Vegucated. Amazon describes the film as:
“…a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks and learn what it’s all about.”
Even though I’m not Vegan, it should be interesting. I always like shows that cause people to step outside of their comfort zones and I’m sure my neighbor Francisco will have a discussion about it afterwards too. This should be interesting!
Amazon Prime Members can watch Vegucated for free.
Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it. Did you love it? Hate it? Can’t wait to watch it over and over?
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Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,
~Mavis
Brooke Ross says
We are vegetarians, not vegan, but really enjoyed this movie. Hope you do, too!
Ashley says
I started this one, but completely forgot to finish! I’ll have to watch it again sometime. I know I was a little turned off when she was going on and on about health, but then she took them thru junk aisles at the grocery store and explained to them which junk was vegan. 1oz meat is bad, but a tub of frosting is ok? Like I said, I didn’t finish the documentary and I’m sure it’s great, just that one moment sticks out in my mind. I love these types of movies though!
Amanda says
Loved this movie! (although it is a bit graphic at some points, so I had to turn my head) It’s a big part of why I went completely vegetarian (wrote about that here if you’re interested). Can’t wait to hear what you think. 🙂
Lisa says
My entire family, sister and two friends watched this in January. Since watching the documentary two are vegan, five are vegetarian and one remains a meat eater!
Sara says
I have seen it and really enjoyed it. I eat very little meat and was vegan for about 3 months, went to vegetarian and am now a “lean towards” vegetarian. I think you will like it!
Diana says
I watched this several months ago. My husband and I have gone from only eating chicken and salmon with our veggies for the past five years, to only salmon, and now we have been mostly vegan for the last four months. I will say the exception is eating eggs as we have a spoiled flock of girls similar to yours and I feel their eggs are a healthy gift for me.
Sabrina Ormsby says
I saw it. It was interesting because as a longish term vegan I’d forgotten some of the earnestness in the early days. A good reminder.
Kaia says
Wow, thank you so much for posting this–I had no idea there were free food movies (or any for that matter, but I’m not interested in others) for prime members!!
Sarah L says
I only made it about halfway through. I’m not even a vegetarian, let alone vegan and will not become one. Instead I need to focus on where exactly my food is coming from. I know my eggs are coming from my girls, and we have a lot of country farmers.
Annette says
I watched this with my 14 year old daughter. We eat mostly low carb so meat is a part of most of our meals. Though I don’t see us going vegan I do believe its time to make more changes as we are always evolving to a more healthy diet.
Bridget says
Yup, I’ve seen it. In fact, I believe I might have suggested it to my favorite blogger not to long ago. Just saying. Wink
Randi says
I really hope you write a long article about what you think. My husband & I watched this in January. We were always meat & cheese eaters. That night, he went vegetarian & I went vegan. It was the suffering that bothered us. It has been 5 months & although we cheat, we are mostly veggie & vegan. We don’t have chickens, so we eat almost zero eggs except for the most expensive humane & free range kind. My friends tease me that my carrots were teased & my cabbage is depressed. I’ve considered buying a big freezer & filling it with happily raised meat, but so far it’s cost prohibitive.
Marietta says
I am new to raised garden beds. What type of wood do you use? Cedar is so expensive, but I heard that pressure treated is very very bad.
Diane M. says
I’ve used both cedar and ordinary wood from lumber yard. They both last for years. I used 2×12 planks for nice deep boxes (veggies love it because the dirt filling the boxes has never been compacted and they can send roots way down). BUT it was really expensive to build those boxes and fill them with topsoil. I would NOT do it again…especially now that I’ve taken the time to actually read Steve Solomon’s book: Gardening When It Counts, Growing Food in Hard Times. He has very good advice on raised beds (only benefits in certain climates). In the Pacific NW we get lots and lots of rain until the point where we get absolutely none. Then it’s weeks without rainfall. For our area, Solomon recommends dry gardening on the flat — his book offers a more complete explanation; raised beds are good in some areas but not all. Then take the time (a few seasons) to make great soil and be patient. It can be 4 years or more for your garden to have good tilth.
IC says
Meh. I agree with Ashley and I hardly think the China study people were eating Oreos, Teddy Grahams and soy milk with added sugar and flavorings. Not to mention I’ve read too much debunking the China study.
I agree CAFO meat and products are poison but I’m in E KC and am surrounded by family farms – beef, pigs, real milk and eggs. And it looks idyllic, just like the beginning of the movie and you can visit anytime. It IS idyllic. The animals are outside and healthy and eat the real food they are meant to eat.
The people who made this movie could have found a REAL family farmer if they really wanted to – they come to the Union Square greenmarket. (I’m from NYC.) I felt this was dishonest and skewed.
The animal sanctuary is nice but still it has only one rooster because, well, rooster will fight each other to the death without a lot of space and hens. The animals looked happy but animals still fight. (Hen pecked, anyone?)
In the end, Joel Salatin is more eloquent, knows more about farming and probably has done more for the health of the planet and people on his own farm than this movie. You have to go beyond saying meat is bad, chemical fertilizers and roundup for PLANT farming runoff kills off aquatic life and increases desertification too. Plus plants are also living. All food should be alive. (That’s why I’d say an Oreo is not food – do they contain any non fabricated ingredients?) We should respect and be thankful for any food we eat.
I think I’ll go have some pastured meatballs with a glass of grassfed milk now . . .