Vegucated

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Vegucated is a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks and learn what it's all about.
  • Starring: T. Colin Campbell, Brian Flegel
  • Directed by: Marisa Miller Wolfson
  • Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
  • Release year: 2011
  • Studio: FilmBuff
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Synopsis: Vegucated is a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks and learn what it's all about.
Starring: T. Colin Campbell, Brian Flegel
Supporting actors: Joel Fuhrman, Stephen Kaufman, Tesla Lobo
Directed by: Marisa Miller Wolfson
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
Captions and Subtitles: Details
Release year: 2011
Studio: FilmBuff
ASIN: B006LZSF8M (Rental) and B006LZSHAS (Purchase)
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  • US Theatrical Release Date: December 06, 2011

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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3.9 out of 5 stars
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“ I highly recommend watching it, even if you have no intention of going vegan....you will learn a lot! ” vegan wannabe  |  84 reviewers made a similar statement
“ Crying about not eating meat, etc. ” jenn  |  28 reviewers made a similar statement
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259 of 288 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Well intentioned but heavy handed April 7, 2012
By James Beswick TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE
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First up, I've been a vegan for nearly a year and I can attest to the transformational effects it has on your health, fitness, attitude and lifestyle. I've been a single-person marketing campaign for films such as Forks Over Knives and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, both of which illustrate effectively the positive effects of a plant-based diet (beer is plant based, woo-hoo). Personally, I think the biggest negative of veganism is the stereotyped baggage that follows which I try to fight all the time - vegetable eaters aren't all smoking weed in their drum circles trying to fight the man.

While I support any effort to show people how the Western diet is bad for your health, this film comes across as more of a PETA commercial than an attempt to follow 3 people willfully changing their lifestyle. I'm completely against the way that mass farm treats animals but spreading the vegan word must surely come from illustrating the gains that individuals make rather than having a political agenda about animal treatment. That said, what is shown in the film in the animal processing facilities is disturbing and the public should be aware - but let's make that a focus of a different film.

For me, this film lacked the journey promised in the subtitle about following 3 New Yorkers becoming vegan which could have been funny, personal, touching and dramatic. As a contrast, I think Forks Over Knives is a substantially more approachable film for non-vegans and doesn't press the animal cruelty buttons to guilt people into quitting hamburgers.
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40 of 46 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and somewhat graphic documentary. March 11, 2012
By Peter Faden TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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This film's goal is to educate you as to the health benefits of a vegan, or at least vegetarian lifestyle, but even more, it is dedicated to educating people as to the horrible atrocities committed to fill the shelves in the meat section of your local grocer. It basically takes three people from different lifestyles and challenges them to embrace a vegan lifestyle for six weeks. During those six weeks, as they are learning how they can eat properly without meat or dairy products, they are also exposed to the dark underbelly of animal butchery and production. The film is very graphic in this respect, showing the inside of chicken, beef, and pork production plants and farms. One scene shows the castration of a cow. Very disturbing. The film also teaches about how, just because a label says free range, organic, and cruelty free, it doesnt really actually meet those standards. For example, when we see 'free range', i think we all have a picture of an animal traipsing about a meadow until it's slaughter time (which is gruesome enough). In reality, they are still kept in small pens and squalid conditions, but are simply not confined 12 chickens to a single tiny cage. They show how chicken beaks are melted off to keep them from fighting in the cages. They show a lot. In fact, if you were to watch this film, i think you might view the consumption of meat and dairy quite differently, from both an appeal standpoint, and also from an ethical one.
There is some sloppy editing in this film, including at least one glaringly obvious misspelling, but the overall messages this documentary puts forth are valid, important, and quite compelling.
A definite must watch in my opinion.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Go watch Forks Over Knives instead April 24, 2012
By S. Munoz
Format:DVD
Let me start this review by saying that I am a vegan, animal rights activist. I disliked this documentary so much! It was annoying, came across as poorly made and really was heavy handed with the slaughter house footage. This video would turn most non-vegans off instead of opening their eyes. I'd recommend people watch Forks Over Knives, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, and Food Inc, as well as read Skinny Bitch or Eating Animals as these all do what Veducated wished to do. I was so disappointed with this film! There was a lot of hype over this film and I expected so much more.
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