Forks Over Knives

Movie review time! I just finished watching Forks Over Knives for the first time and it really is very good and only mentions mythological anthropomorphic global warming once, which is less than I expected, so that's a win right there. In the opening sequence it also veers very close to advocating nanny state-ism but then mercifully pulls away. We have to remember that we can only suggest that people eat better food . In the words of C.S. Lewis: "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Forks Over Knives makes its points very clearly and convincingly. It allows us to follow the clinical path of three individuals, one female diabetic, one male who has a host of issues, and the film maker himself. All three show a complete reversal of symptoms. The film also shows how Dr. Campbell, from a scientific perspective, and Dr. Esselstyn, from a clinical perspective, follow the same path to the same realization. That our western meat and cheese based diet is a killer. There is no misguided hippie activism here. The film makes its points and makes them very well. All that being said, Forks Over Knives is a very important film.