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Vegan 2017, A Film Documentary

by Jennie Richards · Published April 24, 2018 · Updated April 13, 2019

“Tax-payer dollars and the government is subsidizing the very food that is killing us.”

“The U.S. government is responsible for the fast-food crisis, the health crisis, the environmental crisis – by subsidizing this horrible food, by subsidizing animal agriculture.”

This is Plant Based News’s third in a series of annual films documenting the growth of the vegan and plant-based movement around the world. Vegan 2017 charts the impacts of the movement, the successes, the challenges, and the adversity that was faced by the movement in 2017. Enjoy this fascinating look back on 2017 and see the progress made in the last year!

The film documentary is produced by PBN Founder Klaus Mitchell.

Film Length: 47 Minutes

Film Premier: December 2017

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Quotes From The Film

“Veganism is no longer viewed as a fringe lifestyle choice, it’s a moral framework searing into the consciousness of huge numbers of people. The question now is, what will you bring into 2018?”

“In 2017 industries and institutions continued to work together to perpetuate animal exploitation.”

“Corporations have peddled a phony narrative that continues to undermine the health of our planet and people.”

“Films that provoked major change came out and awareness grew about the collusion and corruption of the government. The government is very supportive of legislation that protects the animal food industry.”

“The U.S. government is responsible for the fast-food crisis, the health crisis, the environmental crisis – by subsidizing this horrible food, by subsidizing animal agriculture.”

“Tax-payer dollars and the government are subsidizing the very food that is killing us.”

“18 percent of our GDP is going into the health industry, that’s insane!”

“We are in the business of treating sick people, we are not in the business of preventing sickness and promoting health.”

“It’s criminal not to say to patients to change their diet when they are dying from heart disease, clogged arteries, making themselves diabetic and becoming obese.”

“This is a government program, a government-sponsored campaign to “trigger cheese cravings” in consumers.”

“Corruption has worked its way into the health industry.”

“The overwhelming majority of the evidence supports almost exclusively eating a plant-based diet for optimal health and longevity.”

“We grew up with this belief that we needed to eat animal foods, and that has clearly been debunked.”

“The Academy of Nutrition Dietetics says that you can meet all of your needs in every stage in life on a vegan diet.”

“We are true herbivores and we should not be eating animals at all.”

“Japan has the longest life expectancy, but when a Japanese person moves to the U.S. and eats and lives on a U.S. diet they start getting typical U.S. chronic diseases. And similarly, the same is true for an American who moves to Japan, and eats and lives like the Japanese, their rates of these typical U.S. chronic diseases plummet.”

“The dairy industry would like you to believe that dairy foods are the best source of calcium—but that is simply a lie.”

“If you go plant-based, you can basically opt-out of becoming one of those statistics.”

“There are a lot of studies linking meat with heart disease. It’s the plant-based eater who is the healthiest, and will live the longest.”

“We can eliminate chronic illness if we can get people to eat a plant-based diet.”

“It is recognized by the American insurance industry – there are only two dietary plans that can reverse heart disease, they are both plant-based.”

“One of the biggest contributing factors to global warming and climate change is meat production. The number one cause of global warming is the animals you eat. It’s worse than all transportation systems combined.”

“The animal agriculture industry has already spent $33.4 million dollars on lobbying so far in 2017 alone. That figure tripled by the end of the year.”

“Switching to grass-fed meat does not benefit the environment any more than factory farm meat.”

“It takes about 8 pounds of plant protein to produce 1 pound of animal protein.”

“Each one of can choose if we want to increase the amount of mercy in the world—or the amount of misery in the world.”

“Veganism began to break growth records all over the world.”

“Tyson Corporation admitted the future of food is very likely meatless.”

“Despite the Canadian government removing dairy products from its draft dietary recommendations for 2017, it gave the dairy industry $350 million dollars into new dairy support programs; and it subsidized the animal industry to tens of billions, revelations came to light about animal abuse, the collusion in the animal agriculture industry, and the use of antibiotics in livestock losing its efficacy.”

“The loophole in agriculture law that states certain practices done to animals are “Standard Agricultural Practices” making those protected by the law – it’s this that allows the industry to slam baby pigs into walls to kill them; animals to be crammed in cages on factory farms; no pain relief used for animals when they amputate their body parts …. ”

“When we consume meat – it’s from the body of an animal that wanted to live—not die.”

“The mainstream media will never tell the “vegan, animal rights” story – because most of the big advertisers are the meat-dairy-eggs-big pharmaceutical industries. Those industries stand to losebigif the world goes plant-based.”

“Look at what the meat industry is doing to our planet—to the animals—to us—now that’s extreme!”

“Dairy product revenues plunged in 2017, while plant-based milk products soared much higher.”

“Humane milk is a total myth. It’s ludacrous and immoral.”

“There’s nothing happy about the dairy industry – male calves are slaughtered.”

“Cows just become these baby-making machines in order to produce milk, separating babies from the mothers, the killing of the babies, the forcible impregnation—it’s a brutal industry, and for what?”

“What people don’t know is ‘humane meat’ is a total lie.”

“The animal agriculture industry is a 250 billion dollar industry in the U.S., they are going to fight back to protect their profits.”

“The animal rights-vegan movement has the best thing going for it—the truth!”

“100 billion animals are forced to come into being to suffer and to be exploited; to destroy our planet, and to be the worst karmic disaster in the history of the world—reenacted every year—it is unconscious and unconscionable behavior.”

“It’s the ethical calling of our time. We want to create a world where every single slaughterhouse in the world is replaced by an animal sanctuary.”

“The oppression of animals is the gateway drug to the oppression of humans.”

“The best thing any on of us can do to help animals is leave animals off your plate, and stop paying for their abuse.”