Cowspiracy
| Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | |
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Movie Poster for Cowspiracy
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| Directed by | Kip Andersen Keegan Kuhn |
| Produced by | Kip Andersen Keegan Kuhn |
| Starring | Kip Andersen Howard Lyman Richard Oppenlander Michael Pollan Michael Klaper Will Tuttle Will Potter |
| Cinematography | Keegan Kuhn |
| Edited by | Kip Andersen Keegan Kuhn |
| Distributed by | A.U.M. Films First Spark Media |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary film produced and directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. The film explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, and investigates the policies of environmental organizations on this issue. Environmental organizations investigated in the film include Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Rainforest Action Network, and many more.
The film was crowdfunded on IndieGoGo, with 1,449 contributors giving $117,092. This funding was 217% of their goal, and it allowed them to dub the film into Spanish and German and subtitle it into more than 10 other languages, including Chinese and Russian. Screenings are licensed through the distributor as well as on Tugg.
A new cut of the documentary, executive-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, premiered globally on Netflix on September 15, 2015.
Journalist Chris Hedges stated that this film led him to become a vegan.
Cowspiracy won the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 South African Eco Film Festival, as well as the Best Foreign Film Award at the 12th annual Festival de films de Portneuf sur l'environnement. It was also nominated for Cinema Politica’s 2015 Audience Choice Award.
Doug Boucher, reviewing the film for the Union of Concerned Scientists, disputed the film's claim that 51% of global greenhouse gases are caused by animal agriculture. Boucher describes the 51% figure as being sourced from by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang; not from a peer-reviewed scientific paper. He asserts methodological flaws in Goodland and Anhang's logic, and claims that the scientific community has formed a consensus that global warming is primarily caused by humanity's burning of fossil fuels. Boucher claims the scientific consensus is that livestock contribute 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions - far lower than the 51% claimed by the film.
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