"Forks Over Knives"

                Could not eating animal products cure someone of cancer? Can eating a plant-based diet remove the problems of diabetes? “Forks Over Knives” explores the possibilities of animal-product free and plant based diets could reversing, preventing, and possibly putting an end to many degenerative illnesses. This documentary follows several scientists on their quests to determine how the findings that areas with plant-based diets had very little experience with diseases that are extremely common in places with animal products in their diets.   

                Because I thought I was fairly familiar with different variations of plant-based, and animal-based diets, and positive and negative aspects of them, this movie crushed many of the positive eating that I believed I had developed; which intrigued me. I was very unaware that people have realized revelations such as the ones about diet choices that are discussed in Forks Over Knives and will consider them when making my own diet choices. Although I am currently not in a position that would further urge me to remove animal based products from my diet, I will consider the advice given in the movie to make healthier choices. One of the biggest shockers I gained from the movie is how cow milk interacts with the human body. The film states something like “It does not make sense that giving a species milk from another species would work.” Growing up, I was always urged to drink cow milk because it was a “healthy choice”. Although, for a number of reasons, my family has transitioned to drinking almond milk over the years, this news gives me more reason to stay away from something I was always taught was good for me.