Cowspiracy (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn
	Actors: -
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 14.04.2015, https://mrmondialisation.org/cowspiracy-the-sustainability-secret/, Original english version
Synopsis: The World's largest environmental organizations are failing to address the single most destructive force facing the planet today. Follow the shocking journey of an environmentalist inspired by Al Gore. He confirms with the help of several researchers and NGOs that the main enemy of the climate change and of sustainability is the meat consumption.
Review: I had been inspired to watch this movie by one follower of JoRafCinema as she knew me as an environmetalist and wanted my opinion on the movie.  The movie starts rather aggressively against American NGOs which either refuse to answer (e.g. Greenpeace USA) or answer wrongly about the main contributor for the climate change, which is not the direct energy consumption by human, but the indirect energy consumption via meat (ca. 40%), especially beef. This is indeed an outcome of a study (Livestock’s Long shadow) done for the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) in the UNO in 2006 and supported by many institues, by the GIEC and by OCDE reports. Since then a clear policy would be to stop or to reduce the meat consumption. And this is what the author collects arguments for. On top of it, as in the study, all the consequence of livestock agriculture on water, on pollution, on biodiversity. The study is followed very well and gets even more references from other studies. On the form, the author insists a lot on the fact that NGOs are hiding the livestock problem. And after the first thirty minutes this becomes boring. Even if he is right in that fact, he diverges from his purpose which is to convince that meat consumption shall be avoided. It is the classical plague of progressist movements preferring to fight one against the other than against the common enemy. The way the questions are settled is not positive. Although the issue is not new (2006 to 2014), the author makes as if he was the first guy discovering the issue and its solutions. This was also not very pleasant. Some NGOs actually point out this problem. Indeed not strong enough compared with the efforts developped for planting trees or against oil drilling in the Arctic regions that aims at the same goal to limit the climate change.  Worldwatch: http://www.worldwatch.org/  Greenpeace Germany: http://www.greenpeace.de/presse/publikationen/landwirtschaft-und-klima-deutsche-zusammenfassung Nothing on Greenpeace France nor on Greenpeace International.
Rating: 4 /10