Cowspirasy By Keegan Kuhn: Film Analysis

Cowspirasy is a documentary made by environmentalist Kip Anderson and award-wining documentary filmmaker Keegan Kuhn. Released June 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California the documentary follows Kip on a journey to find the answer of what was causing climate change, only to figure out that the answer was in plain sight. The cause of climate change was animal agriculture. Now he goes to all these environmental organization to get no information on why they are not trying to stop animal agriculture from hurting the earth. The film did very well on giving facts on the subject and having credible scientific testimony. Although, the film mostly focused on the ethos and logos, it tried to get the viewer emotionally involved with not much success.

The film did not put as much effort with the emotional scenes, but the film did have a couple of scenes that had emotion. The scenes that had some emotion were actually well but together, even though the film did try to make some emotional scenes in the beginning, the strongest emotional scene was in the middle of the documentary. For example in the middle of the film it tells a story about an American nun who went to the amazon to protest and protect the rain forest, she later was killed by someone hired by the cattle company. The music in the background when
For example, in the beginning of the documentary the narrator states: animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of human cause climate changed, 30% of water consumption, 45% of earths land, 91% of amazon destruction, the leading cause of ocean dead zones, habitat loss and species extinction. This is just amazing that animal agriculture is responsible for all of these environmental problems. Just think that all of these problems will be resolved if there was no agriculture. If only people can come to terms of what this will do to help the planet. With the pathos and logos come to a close, it is now to talk about