Product Details

• Actors: Marianne Thieme
• Directors: Gertjan Zwanikken
• Writers: Claudine Everaert, Niko Koffeman, Dolf Jansen
• Producers: Claudine Everaert & Monique van Dijk
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Alalena Media Productions
• DVD Release Date: October 10, 2008
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001HZY1NY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,516 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meat the Truth, May 13, 2009

By 

Francesco Anselmo (Watford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meat the Truth (DVD)

This is a good introduction to understand the link between livestock farming and carbon emissions.
Marianne Thieme (leader of the Party for the Animals in Holland) succeeds in highlighting to the public what other documentaries about climate change have missed: the fact that industrialised livestock farming is not sustainable for the Earth, for the animals, for the communities.
I absolutely recommend watching this documentary.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good film, recommend for everyone, October 31, 2008

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Spottedfire (Somewhere between here and nowhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meat the Truth (DVD)

The meat industry as the number one cause of global warming is not informed to the public by the government. This documentary reveals this real "inconvenient truth". Highly recommended for everyone who cares about our planet, each inhabitant needs to take action to save the earth before it's too late.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great documentary!, November 2, 2008

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humble1 "humble1" (Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meat the Truth (DVD)

Scientific info from FAO, Worldwatch institute, Free university Amsterdam and much much more about the problems of rising meat consumption.
Nice carbon saving table: Carbon savings that could be achieved in the USA through a reduction
in meat consumption
CARBON SAVINGS USA
Days
per
week
no
meat
CO2 in
Megatons
per
annum
If all Americans ate no meat for .... days a week
This would result in the same carbon savings as taking 19.2 million cars
off the road in the USA for a year long.
1 day 99,6
If all Americans did not eat meat for one day a week, they would save
99.6 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would save 46 million
return flights from New York to Los Angeles and back from Los Angeles to
New York.
2 days 199.2 If everyone in the US did not eat meat for two days a week, they would
save 199 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would have the
same positive effect on reducing greenhouse gases as replacing ALL
household appliances in the US with energy efficient ones.
3 days 298.6 If all Americans did not eat meat for three days a week, they would save
almost 300 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would have a
greater impact on the climate than replacing all US cars with Toyota Prius
models.
4 days 398.4 If everyone in the US did not eat meat for four days a week, they would
save 398 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would result in
carbon savings equivalent to halving the domestic use of all electricity,
gas, oil, petroleum and kerosene in the United States.
5 days 498 If all Americans abstained from eat meat for five days a week, they
would save 498 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would result
in carbon savings equivalent to planting 13 billion trees in your garden
and letting them grow for ten years. That is 43 trees per American!
6 days 597.6 If all Americans did not eat meat for six days a week, they would save
nearly 600 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would lead to the
same carbon savings as eliminating the total electricity use of all
households in the United States.
7 days 697.2 If everyone in the United States ate a vegetarian diet for seven
days, they would save around seven hundred megatons of
greenhouse gas emissions. That would be just the same removing all
of the cars in the USA off the roads. [...]