Summary Analysis: Cowspiracy
Cowspiracy Summary Paper How many people know that animal agriculture is accountable for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions? How many people know that animal agriculture affect the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions more than the combined exhaust of all the transportations around the world? Cowspiracy is an informative documentary many people watch for various reasons. Wether they watch it for fun, pure curiosity or want to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle, they learn a lot of facts with this movie. People often complain about pollution so they should reduce the amount of animal products intake. Animal agriculture has cleared 136 million acres of land to harvest grains or soy to feed animals. Damaging and clearing 2 acres of land
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In the article “Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction”, the author, a person who has been vegan for 14 years, claims that livestock agriculture is only responsible for 15 percent of global gas emissions. However, the movie says it is responsible for 51 percent yet the author looked for the source and found that this poorly backed up statistic comes from a single non-peer-revised report by two researchers, which was a report with many statistical errors. Another statistical error is clear in one of the graphs given as they say that animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gasses and later, the Food and Agriculture Organization released revealing calculations in 2013 that animal agriculture should only be blamed for 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emission. Others also critique how the movie talk about water usage since they only talk about water used in cattle agriculture and fail to mention Americans who would waste water doing the ice bucket challenge. They support this argument by saying that the ice bucket challenge didn’t even feed a single person or provide a by-product to be used. For them, it seemed useless to be critiquing animal industries. The movie also had many people who talked and had a discussion with Kip Anderson with the titles claiming to be environmental experts and environmental researchers. Following this untrue claims, background research on this guys were made and it is proven that they had no legitimate background or experience in agriculture nor the
In the article “Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction”, the author, a person who has been vegan for 14 years, claims that livestock agriculture is only responsible for 15 percent of global gas emissions. However, the movie says it is responsible for 51 percent yet the author looked for the source and found that this poorly backed up statistic comes from a single non-peer-revised report by two researchers, which was a report with many statistical errors. Another statistical error is clear in one of the graphs given as they say that animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gasses and later, the Food and Agriculture Organization released revealing calculations in 2013 that animal agriculture should only be blamed for 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emission. Others also critique how the movie talk about water usage since they only talk about water used in cattle agriculture and fail to mention Americans who would waste water doing the ice bucket challenge. They support this argument by saying that the ice bucket challenge didn’t even feed a single person or provide a by-product to be used. For them, it seemed useless to be critiquing animal industries. The movie also had many people who talked and had a discussion with Kip Anderson with the titles claiming to be environmental experts and environmental researchers. Following this untrue claims, background research on this guys were made and it is proven that they had no legitimate background or experience in agriculture nor the