Synopses & Reviews
The 2014 documentary film
Cowspiracy presents hard-to-digest truths about how animal agriculture affects our world and explores why no environmental organizations are investigating the environmental effects of this massive industry.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret supplements and expands on the film. See what didnt make the cut and what was too inflammatory to include, and read anecdotes and interviews with the filmmakers describing their difficult, entertaining, and controversial journey. Containing statistics distilled into easy-to-read graphs and charts, this small, affordable book makes it easy to understand the mind-boggling facts behind the largest issue facing our planet.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret includes:
• An overview of the contents of the film.
• Material that was cut from the film due to length and funding issues.
• Descriptions of the reception the film received from funders, environmental activist groups, and ranching / animal agriculture groups. In addition, the filmmakers return to these groups, giving them a chance to comment.
• Action points describing how people can effect change.
• Substantial suggested reading lists, peppered with relevant quotes from influential personalities.
• General guidelines for becoming a vegan. (Recipes not included.)
Review
Press for CowspiracyCowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.
Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-winning director of The Cove
A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement.
Darren Aronofsky, director of Noah
*****! A fresh take. Few films are brave enough to tackle a topic this controversial.
Examiner.com
[Director Kip Andersen] pulls no punches and makes no apologies: The future of our planet is being destroyed by this industry.” Hard to argue with the data.
The Huffington Post
Producers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn have teamed up to do what Blackfish is currently doing to Sea World.
James McWilliams, author and writer
Cowspiracy really makes one connect the dots. Its an undeniable, statistical tour-de-force!
Shaun Monson, director of Earthlings
I hope that every single person on Earth sees this critical documentary.
Julieanna Hever, author and dietitian
Synopsis
Discover the biggest issue in conservation today. This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the impacts of the most environmentally destructive industry on the planet: animal agriculture.
Synopsis
The groundbreaking 2014 documentary
Cowspiracy presents shocking truths about the effects of industrial animal agriculture on the planet. The leading cause of deforestation, rainforest destruction, greenhouse gas production, water consumption and pollution, habitat loss, species extinction, ocean dead-zones, topsoil erosion, and a host of other environmental ills, animal agriculture is the biggest issue facing the planet today and one of the most controversial environmental secrets in the world of conservation.
Filled with anecdotes, statistics, research, interviews with the filmmakers and contributors, and unabridged transcripts from the film, this companion book supplements and expands upon the documentary in every way. With all this and more, The Sustainability Secret reveals the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet and offers a path to global sustainability for a growing population.
About the Author
Kip Andersens environmental awakening came as a result of
An Inconvenient Truth. After seeing the film, he began to recycle religiously, turn off lights constantly, shower infrequently, and ride a bike instead of driving. Andersen believed he was doing everything he could to help the planet by following the guidelines of national and international environmental organizations, but his life took a different direction when he found out animal agriculture is the leading cause of environmental destruction. He is the founder of Animals United Movement, a pending 501(c)3 focused on creating films and media promoting sustainability, compassion, and peace for all of Earths inhabitants. Also a serial entrepreneur, he has built more than a dozen businesses. He is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo school of business and has called San Francisco home for more than a decade.
Keegan Kuhn is a videographer, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and professional musician living in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked with nonprofit organizations and been involved in social justice movements for virtually his entire life. As a filmmaker, he helps organizations reach an ever-greater community of supporters with the highest possible quality films and videos. His film career has taken him as far as the remote interior of Alaska to document modern homesteaders, to the high deserts of the American West, filming the nations remaining wild horses, to rural agricultural communities and dirty urban streets. He is motivated by a deep desire to shed light on untold stories of the most downtrodden in our society, and to raise to awareness through greater visibility of social justice issues.