Thanks for sharing the trailer but just a correction- this isn't brave, or a redefinition. For decades there's been top athletes and trainers who know the results of a plant based diet:
http://www.fuelforthefighter.com/the-fighter/
https://www.livekindly.co/top-vegan-athletes/
https://www.ranker.com/list/athletes-who-are-vegan/people-in-sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegans
Carl Lewis adopted a vegan diet in 1990. He says, "My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet."
Thank you for showing some light into this misconception, being healthy is something that depends on how well informed you are about what you eat and that also depends, like everything else, on how your own body works or reacts, so you need to know your body before starting to do certain things or talk to a nutritionist (what I did). I don't eat animals, only plants, and I have been doing so for more than 10 years; well, everything in my body is perfectly fine. I take my tests and make sure nothing happens to me, but anyways, I never stopped eating meat because I'd thought it was healthier (so blaming meat for that would be another misconception, as I think being healthy can be achieved by knowledge; so you can eat meat and be unhealthy as fuck and you can also be vegan and be unhealthy as fuck). To me it became part of my moral decisions, not something I wanted to do to live longer or to be healthier actually, not something I wanted to do to expect a reward. And everyone takes decisions based on morality; so do I. To me it works like this, and I say it again, to ME (so that nobody thinks I'm talking for everyone or telling anyone what their life should be based upon, I'd never do that): the same way I care about animals and how they value their own life as I do with mine, the same way I could never kill any animal to eat him because it always felt cruel to me (even when I was a kid, but I didn't know I could change the way I lived back then, and I do now), I concluded that I shouldn't pay anyone to do so for me so that I can feel better by not watching what actually happens. If I cannot kill an animal, I won't delegate that to another person either. I hope no one looks at me like a freak because I care about animals this way. I believe that nothing in this world is out there for me to take advantage of by force, the same way I believe I am not here for others to take advantage of. I believe everything is alive (including plants and even what we call "matter", as I know everything is a whole, a ONE) so by doing what I do I know I'm not better than anyone else, and that's one of the reasons why I don't like being called a vegan or being labeled as one. But I also think that the more complex an individual is, the more he is aware of his own identity and suffering, so the same way I see a human being more aware of himself than a chicken, I also believe the chicken to be more aware of himself than a bush or a plant. I call them spheres of consciousness. I am not more important than a wildflower as everything is equally important, if not, why would everything else be here the same way I am? But if I have to pick the wildflower to eat it or I have to slaughter a human baby to eat him, I will absolutely pick the flower because I know the "sphere of concioussness" of both are not the same, therefore the suffering won't be the same either.
I agree with most of you when it comes to the term, which is used in many ways I don't want to be engaged with, yet it's supposed to mean what I do, but it... doesn't. The same happens with feminism I guess. I could say I'm a feminist because I treat women equally as me, a man, but that's not what "massive" or "mediatic" feminism is about. So let's think of it the same way. I have friends who don't eat animals too, and friends who do. And they all know I'd never judge them for what they do in this case, the same way I don't want to be judged for the decision I made. Everyone has his ways to try to make this world a better place, I guess. As long as the intention is to be empathetic and compassive, then it's a matter of respect, period. And I know the natural law operates in another completely different way, I know animals eat each other every day. But then again, I don't think of it as their decision, because they have to kill in order to survive. It's an imperative unless they are herbivores and such, an imperative to live. And to think that if they do it then it's fine is dangerous, as in the wild there's also r*pe on a daily basis, mothers who kill their children to eat them, cannibalism and all type of behaviours I wouldn't find myself engaged to only because it's "natural", as I had to learn natural doesn't mean good, it only means that it is what it is. So in the end it's only up to me to decide how I live my life, but I certainly cannot take one single thing animals do (eating each other) to justify what I actually find immoral, and then try to ignore everything else they do that we don't do (because of obvious moral reasons, of course).
I'm not from the USA, I'm from Spain so I'm sorry for any mistake I might make when writting, I guess I'll present myself if there's a topic for that so that people know me a little better, and this way I also get to know others better. I don't eat animals, that's a fact and something I'm proud of (the same way I'm sure each one of you are proud of different things you've decided in your life or how to live it), but I'm not a "vegan" and I don't want to be associated with the term. Maybe because I'm aware there could be an agenda behind it, or maybe because the same way it happens with feminism, most of the times I find myself absolutely repelled by people who call themselves vegan and act like morons or like if they were superior to others because of it, as to me it means the complete opposite. If I'm that sensitive about animals, how can't I be sensitive about people? Why should I be rude to them and treat them with disrespect? So to me it's also strange when I see some kind of behaviours inside the "vegetarian/vegan" community and that's why I don't want to take part in it, because if they were doing it due to their compassion for animals which is what they claim, then they should understand that compassion goes towards everything, of course, people included... So when a simple term becomes that contradictory and absurd, I don't want to be labeled as such anymore. I am not better nor worse than anybody else. I simply made a decision that matters to me. The same way it matters to me to help people and that's why I don't quite get this new era of "me, me, me, me". We're all a whole. I don't seek approval or as I said, any rewards for what I do more than what it is.
Thank you for reading and I hope you accept me, I've been reading this site for a long time and I've been into independent journalism (now labeled as a bunch of "conspiracy theorists" so that it sounds more crazy I guess) for so long I don't even remember when I started to sense something was very wrong in this world we live in. I've been and I am also into reading a lot of occultism in order to understand better what they do and how does it operate.
My blessings to all and each one of you. Peace.