Cowspiracy

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Movie
German title Cowspiracy - The Secret of Sustainability
Original title Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Kip Andersen
Keegan Kuhn
production Kip Andersen
Keegan Kuhn
Leonardo DiCaprio
music Kip Andersen,
Keegan Kuhn
camera Keegan Kuhn
cut Kip Andersen,
Keegan Kuhn
occupation

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary produced by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (" What the Health "). The film deals with the impact of livestock farming on the environment. The main message of the film is that the global meat and fish industry has a far greater impact on greenhouse gases that are harmful to the climate and the environment than all other exhaust emissions combined. The film deals with the question of why this hypothesis receives little or no attention from leading environmental organizations. The positions of environmental organizations on this issue are explicitly examined, including Greenpeace , Sierra Club , Surfrider Foundation and Rainforest Action Network .

Emergence

The film was created through crowdfunding on Indiegogo by 1,449 sponsors who contributed a total of US $ 117,092. The amount of funding more than doubled the self-set target (217%). This enabled the synchronization in Spanish and German as well as subtitling with more than ten other languages, including Russian and Chinese subtitles. Demonstrations are licensed by the rental company and via Tugg.

On September 15, 2015, a new compilation of this documentary had its world premiere on Netflix . The lead producer was Leonardo DiCaprio .

A presentation and panel discussion in connection with this documentary took place on December 2, 2015 in the EU Parliament .

title

The title Cowspiracy is a cross of the English words cow (cow) and conspiracy (conspiracy).

people

Reviews

“The film is peppered with facts and figures, but does not require an index finger. Towards the end, the message becomes a little transparent and one-sided - only veganism can avert the ecological apocalypse - but the way Anderson leads you there is entertaining and extremely illuminating. And he also has a sense of humor. "

- Basler Zeitung

One of the core theses of the film, that animal husbandry with its side effects would cause more than half of global greenhouse gas emissions, is in clear contradiction to the state of the art . The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to the conclusion that in 2010 the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and forestry and the associated land use changes, for example from clearing of forests, were responsible for a little less than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, with livestock for some from that. More recent reviews from 2015 and 2017 put the share of livestock farming in total greenhouse gas emissions at around 15%.

A report by the Worldwatch Institute (WI) from 2009 is cited as the source for the thesis of the film . Scientists from the Food and Climate Research Network (FCRN) at the University of Oxford and the Union of Concerned Scientists explain the difference with a methodologically questionable approach in the BISE report. There, CO 2 from the animals' breathing is included in the calculation - an unusual procedure, because this CO 2 comes from forage plants and is already in the carbon cycle; Unlike fossil CO 2 , it is not added to it and therefore does not lead to higher greenhouse gas concentrations. In addition, methane is weighted three times higher than usual in the BISE report and film; The short retention time of methane in the atmosphere compared to CO 2 is not taken into account.

The FCRN sums up the assumptions on which the film is based have been comprehensively refuted. , P. 28 Both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Union of Concerned Scientists call the reduction of meat consumption an important climate protection measure.

Awards

Cowspiracy received the audience award at the South African Eco Film Festival 2015 and the award for the best foreign film at the twelfth Festival de films de Portneuf sur l'environnement .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday - 'Cowspiracy:' The One Thing No One Talks About . Huffington Post. August 4, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Animal Agriculture: A Neglected Agent of Global Warming? . Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Cowspiracy . In: Village , February 19, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015. 
  4. ↑ Burgers Are Ending the World, Says Cowspiracy. In: SF Weekly , June 25, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2015. 
  5. ↑ Campaign page on Indiegogo . Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  6. ^ Alison Homewood: Beware Cowspiracy - and the spread of the vegan virus - New Internationalist . In: New Internationalist .
  7. ↑ Cowspiracy on Tugg . Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ Exclusive: Interview With Directors Of 'Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret' On Netflix, A Controversial New Documentary . In: Decider , August 27, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015. 
  9. ↑ Presentation and panel discussion in the EU Parliament . Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ IMDB .
  11. ↑ Bettina Weber: The Conspiracy of the Meat Eaters. Basler Zeitung , March 19, 2015, accessed on April 12, 2016 .
  12. ↑ a b P. Smith et al. a .: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) . In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . 2014, 11.1 - 11.3.
  13. ↑ Mario Herrero: Livestock and the Environment: What Have We Learned in the Past Decade? In: Annual Review of Environment and Resources . tape 40 , no. 1 , January 2015, p. 177-202 .
  14. ↑ a b c T. Garnett, C. Godde, A. Muller, E. Röös, P. Smith, IJM de Boer, E. zu Ermgassen, M. Herrero, C. van Middelaar, C. Schader and H. van Zanten : Grazed and Confused? Ruminating on cattle, grazing systems, methane, nitrous oxide, the soil carbon sequestration question - and what it all means for greenhouse gas emissions . Ed .: FCRN, University of Oxford. 2017 ( org.uk [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  15. ^ The Facts. In: cowspiracy.com. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  16. ^ Robert Goodland and Jeff Appendix: Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows? Ed .: Worldwatch Institute. 2009.
  17. ^ A b Doug Boucher: Movie Review: There's a Vast Cowspiracy about Climate Change. Union of Concerned Scientists, June 10, 2016, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  18. ^ Cowspiracy Wins Audience Choice Award . In: The South African Eco Film Festival , April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015. 
  19. ↑ Le FFPE récompense les films gagnants de la 12e édition . In: Festival de films de Portneuf sur l'environnement , April 27, 2015. Accessed October 27, 2015.