This awful pseudoscientific pseudodocumentary inspired me to pen a post on How the Health Argument Fails Animal Liberation. It deserves a good debunking in its own right though. There’s been talk of a buncha vegans getting together a point by point refutation of this movie but that’s an undertaking I don’t see happening any time soon. Some non-vegans are just looking for an excuse to take a swipe at veganism are happily utilizing this opportunity. Others are legitimately appalled and recognize that this does not represent veganism. I’m collecting critical reviews just to to have all in one place. Again I must stress that I may not endorse the following reviews or authors but it’s a jumping off point. If there’s something I missed please let me know!
Vegans:
A Vegan Dietitian Reviews “What the Health” | Vegan.com, Virginia Messina, MPH, RD
A Science-Based (and Vegan) Perspective on the New “What the Health” Documentary | TheVeganRD, Virginia Messina, MPH, RD
What an Actual Nutrition Expert Thinks of “What the Health” | Susan Macfarlane Nutrition
A Vegan Debunks ‘What the Health’ Documentary | Unnatural Vegan
Two Diet Wrongs Don’t Make a Diet Right | Verywell, David L. Katz, MD
What The Health – Review | LowCarb Vegan
Others:
Good Vegan, Bad Vegan | The New York Times, Jane E. Brody
What The Health: A Wolf’s Eye Review | Robb Wolf
Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that wants you to be vegan | Vox, Julia Belluz
‘What the Health‘ Review: Health Claims Backed by No Solid Evidence | Diet Doctor, Nina Teicholz
What the Health: A Movie with an Agenda | Science-Based Medicine, Harriet Hall, MD
What the Health, a [vegan] film review | LA Chefs Column
Now there is debunking of the debunking, so you might as well include that also! Here is Mic the Vegan taking apart “ZDoggMD”‘s critique -https://youtu.be/NaXFRp_YH-g
More vegan attacking other vegans.
No, it is called setting the record straight using good evidence and science rather than misinformation and conjecture.
Unfortunately this kind of pseudoscience attack on the vegan community is not new and it is up to us to speak up against it. Zia, please read How the Health Argument Fails Animal Liberation specifically point number 5 “Movements require a beloved community that supports its members.”
Thanks.
The clarity in your post is simply great, and I could assume you are an expert on this subject.I enjoyed reading it; you are a great author. THank you!
[…] Liberation. To keep track of the critical take downs of this movie there is also a post called What the Health Review Roundup and I’ve been updating it with reviews. Some skeptics have opportunistically used this movie […]