Eating Our Way To Extinction, Part 1 of 6

“Eating Our Way To Extinction” is an award-winning 2021 documentary exploring one of the most urgent yet often overlooked drivers of environmental destruction: the global food system. “We live on an incredibly beautiful planet, a home that we will hopefully pass on to generations to come. But as years go by, it’s becoming increasingly hard to imagine what kind of a world we’re leaving behind us.”

“Climate and environmental scientists warn that we are fast approaching the point of no return if we don’t make a substantial course reversal.” “Whatever environmental issue you want to look at – from species loss to water pollution, to water use, to climate change – animal agriculture is one of the top causes.” The Nestlé executives said that their own research had shown that the world was set to run out of fresh water within the next 30 years. In fact, less than 6% of the soy grown across the globe is fed to humans. The soy is exported all around the world and fed to the billions of chickens, farmed fish, pigs, and cows that we eat each day.

Each year, an estimated 18 million acres of forest are lost, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama. And some scientists have predicted that unless significant measures are taken on a worldwide basis, by 2030, only 10% of the forests will remain. Each year, hundreds of tribespeople, indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, have their villages burned to the ground. One of the worst affected tribes is the Guarani-Kaiowá in Mato Grosso do Sul. “For us, indigenous people, the forest was our home.” “They brought down our forests, killed all the animals, and poisoned our rivers.”