Diet

You Are What You Eat: A Review.

Netflix's documentary on twins eating a vegan vs. omnivore diet raises more questions than it answers.

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I was intrigued by the first episode of “You Are What You Eat.” The show began as a promising and balanced feud between vegan and omnivore diets. I was impressed by the number of scientists quoted early on in the show, especially since not all of these scientists are pro-vegan.

I wanted to enjoy this documentary. They could have done a lot with it. However, in the subsequent episodes, I realized this was another pull by the vegan diet proponents to put forward their polarized arguments against the omnivore diet.

I am super curious about what was cut and left out at the writers’ and producers’ whim.

Propaganda you will be exposed to in this documentary

• Beef/cattle industry and the environment, slash and burn of Amazon rainforest, cow farts, industrial farming practices.
• Fish industry and the environment, parasitic fish, disease plumes, dead fish.
• Contaminant fears of the meat/fish industries, e-coli, antibiotic resistance, you never get that stain off your hands.
• Terrible farming practices and policies, abused…