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Reviews
Sisters of the Trees (2018)
Slow start but fascinating
At first I was pressing the fast forward button (it has a very meditative pace) and then I got hooked by the people, their stories, their ingenuity, and their successes. I didn't want it to end. I was so impressed by how they all came together, supporting the leader who thought to plant the trees, teaching each other and the visitors from other towns their strategies, continuing to find new beneficial strategies (like the termite solution that turned into an additional revenue stream). The visuals are beautiful, and the advantage of the slow pace is that you really take in the subtleties of what they're saying and doing. I want to spend more time with these people!
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024)
Doesn't address drawbacks of veganism.
I was also hoping for science, not advertising. And since I work for a non-profit reversing desertification, I'm pretty interested in climate science in addition to nutrition science. This series doesn't address the high carbon cost of all the shipping, getting vegan foods to folks who live in cold climates 6 months of the year (ie everywhere north of California, lol). It also doesn't address folks from those countries whose genetics are designed NOT to live on fresh veggies and grains. Hunter gatherers may not have lived on milk, but they did consume bugs. You want to explore Virtuous Living for nutritional and climate sustainability? I want to see a much much larger study, with a wider cross-section of genetics, and a third of them need to eat bugs, lol. (Sidenote: our company plants native seeds, but the Savory Institute works far more effectively by using cows, LOTS of cows!)