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"Milked" review, full rating 🖤🤍

This documentary was very similar to Cowspiracy, but it genuinely only focused on cows. The plotline had some similarities, I suppose all the “I discover an industry” plotlines are a bit staged for viewer entertainment, it’s all good.

I took away some new facts like that milk is 87% water, I feel like I should have heard this, but this time it stood out. Also milk production wastes 96% of resources, amazing.

This documentary focuses a lot on how the big industries are not open about their practices, how much it takes to get the answers, and that you get in danger by spreading the truth.

It mentioned a ton of alternatives to milk we have, and how the milk tycoon is bound to fall down as it is so unprofitable, unlogical, and wasteful. It mentions milk without cows, but that one is a bit weird. I agree with vegans who do not want lab grown meats, and stuff like that to overthrow our moral concerns. Lab grown stuff is an obvious improvement to slaughterhouses, but it’s not completely ethical, and doesn’t solve how unhealthy it all is. Most importantly are the ethical concerns of how you need to kill some animals to get their specific cells, but I would say health is important too so that our minds do not erode from old age as fast, and that we make more rational decisions.

This film takes place in New Zealand, so it discusses these problems within the context of New Zealand. It’s cool to have films like this all over the world.