140: Are You Really What You Eat

Welcome back to the podcast. Today I don’t have a guest to introduce you to because I want to take some time to talk about a docuseries recently released on Netflix. The series in question is called “You Are What You Eat”. I was hesitant to watch it because I had preconceived notions about what it would be about before going in. But I couldn’t rightly talk to you about it without watching it. So I did. And while there were some parts of the documentary I appreciated, I came away feeling that it was mainly propaganda for vegan food. So I’m going to talk about “You Are What You Eat” and also give some tips on how to assess documentaries in the future.  

The docuseries was based on a twin study published in November 2023. In the study, they took twenty-one sets of twins and put one twin on a vegan diet and the other on an omnivore diet. The show looks at how the study was conducted and presents all the information and results gathered from it. I found things lacking in the setup of the study itself and I talk about those questions. There are statistics presented that were different when I looked them up myself. Ultimately my impression was that the series leaned towards a fear-mongering approach to make us feel bad about what we’re eating and, additionally, was pushing a vegan agenda. Now there are truths contained in the series, yes, but overall I felt it contained a lot of harmful fallacies. So I want to share how to approach documentaries like this in the future. What should you look for to determine the bias of the documentary, the equality, and the validity of the viewpoint presented? There’s simple research you can do so you can take information with a grain of salt and see propaganda for what it is. Join me for my thoughts and email me yours after you’ve listened.

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