page_title: Cowspiracy
section_title: Featured individuals
hierarchical_section_title: Cowspiracy / Featured individuals
caption_attribution_description: English: Keegan Kuhn speaks at Cow-Con, the Cowspiracy conference, Berkeley, September 2016.
context_page_description: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary film which explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, and investigates the policies of a few environmental organizations on this issue. The film looks at various environmental concerns, including global warming, water use, deforestation, and ocean dead zones, and suggests that animal agriculture is the primary source of environmental destruction.
  The Union of Concerned Scientists has disputed the film's assertion that the majority of greenhouse gases driving climate change are produced by animal agriculture, as this runs counter to scientific consensus which is that the main cause is fossil fuel emissions. A 2018 peer-reviewed meta-analysis also found that a “no animal products” scenario delivers a 28% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of the economy.
context_section_description: The following individuals were featured in the film:
  Michael Klaper (physician, author, advisor)
  Howard Lyman (former rancher, author, activist)
  lauren Ornelas (Food Empowerment Project)
  Michael Pollan (author, lecturer)
  William Potter (journalist)
  Kirk R. Smith (environmental health sciences)
  Josh Tetrick (founder of Hampton Creek)
  John Jeavons (biointensive agriculture advocate)
caption: Co-producer/director Keegan Kuhn speaks at the Cowspiracy conference in Berkeley, September 2016.
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