Documentary, Environmental, Nature
COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. As eye-opening as Blackfish and as inspiring as An Inconvenient Truth, this shocking yet humorous documentary reveals the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet.
Hosting a screening or wanting to know more? Access the promoter resources here!
10/9 – Murrieta, CA – tugg.com/events/11016
10/9 – Eugene, OR – bit.ly/CowTugg
10/11 – San Francisco – bit.ly/10D0As2
10/12 – San Francisco – bit.ly/10D0As2
10/12 – Johannesburg, South Africa – on.f…b.me/XYHMCa
10/13 – London, UK – bit.ly/1qlJ6p1
10/13 – Yonkers, NY – tugg.com/events/11062
10/14 – Berlin, Germany – bit.ly/1tRFVeP
10/14 – Arlington, TX – tugg.com/events/11144
10/14 – Columbia, SC – tugg.com/events/11165
10/15 – Drayton, Queensland, Australia – on.fb.me/1v9PPaf
10/15 – Spokane, WA – tugg.com/events/11080
10/15 – Erie, PA – bit.ly/CowTugg
10/15 – Orange, CA – tugg.com/events/11304
10/16 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – bit.ly/1nWh1up
10/16 – Atlanta, GA – *sold out*
10/16 – Metairie, LA – tugg.com/events/11259
10/16 – Hendersonville, TN – tugg.com/events/11053
10/16 – Minneapolis, MN – *sold out*
10/16 – Westminster, CO – tugg.com/events/11234
10/16 – Sausalito, CA – tugg.com/events/11241
10/16 – Pasadena, CA – tugg.com/events/11325
10/16 – Fargo, ND – tugg.com/events/11180
10/18 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Haarlem)- bit.ly/1uikhOp
10/20 – Dallas, TX – tugg.com/events/11374
10/20 – North Fort Myers, FL – bit.ly/CowTugg
10/20 – Royal Palm Beach, FL – tugg.com/events/11289
10/21 – Berkeley, CA – tugg.com/events/11309
10/21 – Orange Beach, AL – tugg.com/events/11176
10/22 – Salt Lake City, UT – tugg.com/events/11204
10/22 – Shererville, IN – tugg.com/events/11157
10/22 – Hamilton, NJ – tugg.com/events/11308
10/23 – Greensboro, NC – tugg.com/events/11296
10/23 – Deltona, FL – tugg.com/events/11353
10/23 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – tugg.com/events/11347
10/23 – Rockville Centre, NY – *free* –tugg.com/events/11123
10/23 – Spokane, WA – tugg.com/events/11124
10/23 – Millbury, MA – tugg.com/events/11379
10/23 – Middletown, DE – tugg.com/events/11102
10/23 – Ithaca, NY – tugg.com/events/11373
10/27 – Carlsbad, CA – bit.ly/1txaz9m
10/28 – Santa Ana, CA – tugg.com/events/11356
10/28 – Bethesda, MD – tugg.com/events/11422
10/28 – Royal Oak, MI – tugg.com/events/11163
10/28 – Pensacola, FL – tugg.com/events/11178
10/28 – Ann Arbor, MI – tugg.com/events/11143
10/29 – Medford, OR – tugg.com/events/11378
10/29 – West Covina, CA – tugg.com/events/11251
10/30 – San Antonio, TX – .tugg.com/events/11360
10/30 – Boulder, CO – tugg.com/events/11187
11/1 – Charleston, SC – tugg.com/events/11455
11/5 – Medford, OR – tugg.com/events/11378
11/5 – Seattle, WA – tugg.com/events/11319
11/5 – Tacoma, WA – tugg.com/events/11415
11/6 – San Francisco – cowspiracysf.brownpapertickets.com/
11/6 – Sioux Falls, SD – tugg.com/events/11008
11/6 – Santa Cruz, CA – tugg.com/events/11340
11/6 – Santa Rosa, CA – tugg.com/events/11192
11/6 – West Covina, CA – tugg.com/events/11251
11/6 – Alexandria, VA – tugg.com/events/11363
11/6 – Davie, FL – tugg.com/events/11451
11/8 – Dorset, UK – bit.ly/1srdNR4
11/10 – Irvine, CA – tugg.com/events/11274
11/11 – Lanesboro, MA – tugg.com/events/11376
11/13 – Athens, GA – tugg.com/events/11441
11/13 – Jacksonville, FL – tugg.com/events/11527
11/19 – Des Peres, MO – tugg.com/events/11354
11/19 – Las Vegas – tugg.com/events/11365
11/20 – Kailua Kona, HI – tugg.com/events/11183
12/4 – Bainbridge Island, WA – tugg.com/events/11300
If you organized a screening and it’s not listed here, let us know and we’ll add it to the calendar.
If you’d like to see Cowspiracy in a theater near you, it’s easy (and free) to make it happen: tugg.com/titles/cowspiracy.
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Exposing the Big Game 
The anthropogenice extinction: The study (http://usat.ly/VpWhx4) is about sorting out the man caused and natural global warming, and corroborates a body of research, 97% of scientists agree, of mankind caused global warming since the Industrial age and accelerating dramatically in the last 40 years. We are also destroying flora and fauna with one in three of each threatened or endangered. Animal farming, meat extinction of ourselves and most else, contributes heavily to greenhouse gases, plus it is unsustainable, “eating” up more and more land, encroaching on and displacing wildlife and wilderness, cutting down forests and jungles, destroying wildlife habitat, fragmenting habitats, polluting streams and rivers and oceans. The way we are going, this could be The Anthropogenic Era of the next mass extinction. Humans kill 27 million animals daily for food, not counting the sea life. We are overfishing the oceans, over hunting the wild, eating ourselves off the planet, polluting air and waters, and with ever increasing population, over 7 billion now growing to 10-11 billion by mid to end of century, accelerating it all. We are destroying biodiversity and the wild. We are not yet asking ourselves how can we live with wildlife instead of against it and farming it for sports killing distorting the health (balanced ecology) of it in the process. Wildlife needs maybe half the planet and corridors of connections. We cannot seem to help ourselves, we are a destructive species as per the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves wherein aliens come to save the Earth from mankind.
The Anthropocene Extinction: Man versus Aliens
Man: Maybe the ugliest, most predatory creature in the universe (!?). We have movies about aliens and predators like Independence Day (movie) aliens. They are us. Impact of man: 38-40 million sharks a year, maybe more, for their fins, 1 in 3 species threatened or endangered, around 2.5 % true wilderness left in the continental USA! Genocide of human and nonhuman animals, sterilization of the earth, debating the last 2.5% for exploitation or not! For those of us who care we must be on the alert and take action over and over to protect wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, wildlife, national forests and parks. Else, the march of civilization, development, recreational destruction and intrusion (euphemism is multiuse), extraction industries (oil, gas, coal, minerals, lumber), effects of global warming, those who do not care, self centered and provincial and parochial attitudes and values, and over population (7 billion now, maybe 10 billion by middle of century or sooner) will destroy it all. The way we produce food (animal farming) is inefficient, terrible for the planet, and terrible for our health, and not sustainable. We raise grass and grains to feed animals to eat the animals, instead of raising vegetation to feed ourselves. Ranching is one of the most polluting activities of man and gobbles up more and more land, cuts down forests and jungles, encroaches more and more on wildlife and wilderness and it is not sustainable. Our sports killing of wildlife and the resultant farming of sport killing target animals and marginalization or elimination of predators is distorting wilderness ecology and biodiversity. Many sportsmen say they want the meat but the wilderness cannot support “subsistence” killing and only limited sports killing. Then the “sportsmen” are going more and more crazy with killing contests, trophy hunting, canned hunting, baiting, less and less of a “fair chase” ethic with jihad on predators and use of high tech equipment. Silencers and drones have been proposed, electronic calls are already used, use of dogs, use of live bait as well.
We have more and more of a distribution of wealth problem with the top 1% of the USA having 40 % of the wealth and 25% of the income; and about 80 individuals in the world having over half of the world’s wealth. Sooner or later this is likely to result in conflict between countries and classes.
We are depleting resources, destroying the planet, encroaching on wildlife and habitat in the March of Civilization and have from the beginning. We either change or we are and the primary cause of the next great extinction, including humans.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature list percentages of threatened or endangered species (with lower and upper estimates) for each group are: cycads 63% (63-64%); amphibians 41% (30-56%); reef-forming corals 33% (27-44%); sharks & rays 33% (17-64%); freshwater crabs 31% (16-65%); conifers 30% (29-33%); mammals 25% (21-36%); groupers 17% (12-43%); birds 13% (12.5-13%); wrasses 5% (4-19%); lobsters <1% (0-35%).
A steady climb in greenhouse gases has been plotted and studied by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other organizations. Graphs show a sudden and continuing climb of greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution (late 1700’s). Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere warming the earth. Man’s activities and industry appear to be the major factors in global warming.
Man and the Earth: See “The Day The Earth Stood Still” with Keanu Reeves, protecting the Earth from man. If we could step back from Earth and look at it from the Dawn of Civilization, it would look like a disease is sweeping around it: Us humans. Our USA forebears marched across this land killing everything in sight; it is the culture we inherited. Yes, we need Acts like EPA, ESA, and all the conservation organizations we have to protect us against ourselves and in the USA protect us from the Tea Party and current set of republicans in the USA Congress and many red state legislatures. We have not been invaded by zombies, but we have been invaded by crazies who want to keep going in the same destructive directions.
It is so overwhelming. Where do we begin to stop it? Or perhaps this is how nature is going to stop us.