The Herald calls this documentary a “compulsory viewing”. Time Out says “compelling scientific evidence.” Sir Paul McCartney hopes this “will alert people to the dangers of some of our current practices.”
They were talking about PLANEAT, a film that tells us “nothing changes the planet as much as the way we eat.”
I have watched many films about food, plant-based diet and animal cruelty. My boss gave me a PLANEAT DVD before Christmas and asked me to watch it. I looked at the back of the DVD cover and saw the names of the usual suspects in those documentaries. The film features Dr. Colin Campbell, the author of China Study who explored the link between diet and disease and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn who work in Cleveland Clinic and use a plant-based diet to cure heart disease patients. Both of them were mentioned in several of my blog posts about veganism recently. Professor Gidon Eshel was also interviewed in this documentary for his investigations into how our food choices contribute to global warming, land use and oceanic deadzones.
All the information was nothing new to me after watching a plethora of documentaries during my research on plant-based diet and also as the juror and division chair for Columbus International Film +Video Festival. However, what I like about this movie is that the filmmakers also feature a few pioneering chefs and some of the best cooking you have ever seen, which provides a different angle of the beauty of vegan food. It demonstrates how people have yet to take their imagination beyond a plain salad. All you need is a chef who has some creativity, knowledge and passion for food and cooking.
This documentary is independent, as with most films that are about food, health and environment. As an independent film producer and actress, I fully support and recommend this to any inquisitive minds about health and plant-based diet. If you are interested in a copy of this DVD, let me know. I do have access to around 50 copies of it in Hong Kong.
