| Perhaps you did. The documentary does sound quite compelling. There is no doubt that switching to a vegan diet from a standard processed food diet will see improvements. But those athletes built themselves up as omnivores. Some examples from athletes in the film: -Griff Whalen: went vegan 2014 out of the league 2016 -Bryant Jennings: went vegan end of 2013 (17-0 before vegan, 5-2 after vegan) -Mischa Janiec: went vegan fall of 2015 - no wins 2 years after -Kendrick Farris: went vegan 2014 -performed poorly in the 2016 Olympics -Patrik Baboumian went vegan 2011 - 5'-7" and never ever part of the World Strong Men competition. -Morgan Mitchell went vegan 2014... in 2017 finished 26th place world championships -James Brett Wilks went vegan 2011, retired from MMA in 2012 - Lewis Hamiliton suffered depressive breakdown on twitter Typically within 2 years after going vegan, performance goes down. So veganism based on many of the athletes in the film is a sub-optimal diet for athletic performance. As to your comment about the Amazon, we aren't eating Amazon beef. You're right it's being cleared, to make way for soy and other processed food. When you buy a steak from the butcher it's not coming from the Amazon, it comes from your local butcher, from a grass fed field, using less carbon then your bananas from Panama. Tim Rees (amongst other) have written several writeups about the "evidence" in the movie. https://medium.com/@timrees/watched-the-game-changers-now-yo... Greenhouse gas emissions of meat is also very questionable. Here is a PhD GHG expert, who has looked a bit closer: https://www.sciencealert.com/sorry-but-giving-up-on-meat-is-... As always it's not as so simple. I believe the place to start is with science-based facts. |