This new ground-breaking documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species. And also discusses several misconceptions about food and diet.

Let us be Heroes explores the impact of our food and lifestyle choices on our health, our home planet and our values with athletes, digital, food and fashion entrepreneurs, a public speaker and an ocean warrior fighting to protect people, planet and animals.

Posted in May 2011, adapted from official description: "Lauren Ornelas, Founder and Director of the Food Empowerment Project, discusses using food choices to create a more just world. Eating a vegan diet is certainly the first step in that direction, but do you drink soda or eat chocolate? Learn about how what you eat and drink might not be connected to animal exploitation but might indeed have direct connections to human exploitation! Also learn about the unjust food system that currently exists in the U.S. regarding access to healthy foods. Lauren has been involved in the animal rights movement for more than 20 years and has done undercover investigations of factory farms and conducted successful campaigns against corporations such as Trader Joe's and Pier 1 Imports."

This video posted in January 2024 offers this YouTube description: "Here's some good news for picky eaters: genetic dispositions cause you to enjoy the taste of certain foods but not others. If some cultural food choices seem baffling to you, that's normal. Why do people eat what they eat? Why does something you eat taste completely different to someone else of a different race or ethnicity? Of course, taste can also be influenced by things that happen during your upbringing or by disease risk factors coded into DNA."

Teen vegan activist Genesis Butler, who founded Youth Climate Save, talks about why she made those choices in this video posted in March 2022.

Here's just a sampling of the amazing vegan food I ate while in Bali. There are vegan choices in so many places along with a few actual vegetarian and vegan restaurants. If you come to Bali you will have no problem getting really good vegan food! I spent 2 weeks in Canggu, 1 week in Ubud, and 1 week in Uluwatu.

What if your daily food choices could help improve your health, protect the planet, and reduce animal suffering? Most of us value wellness, environmental responsibility, and compassion. We exercise, recycle, conserve resources, and care about animals. Choosing plant-based foods is another powerful way to put those values into action.

Vegan physician (who used wise food choices to fully recover from debilitating lupus) Brook Goldner MD of NY's Cornell University demonstrates how to make a green smoothie, to Canadian Gillian Berry, in this video posted in December 2024.

In this video posted in October 2019, vegan South African Garth Tavares in Cape Town, explains his upgrade to veganism to an open-minded news anchor in Johannesburg for the electronic (online) News Channel Africa streaming news service. The chyron reads THE RISE OF VEGANISM. Some of the vegan " junk food choices" made by Mr. Tavares are sub-ideal of course!

In this April 2022 Talks at Google video, Dr. Neal D. Barnard discusses his work with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, where he is working to change federal food guidelines, and through the Barnard Medical Center, where he is showing the power of foods and integrating nutrition into clinical practice. Dr. Barnard will also describe a novel meal program, called Universal Meals, a simple set of meal guidelines that ensure that everyone has a seat at the table. By meeting a wide range of food requirements, Universal Meals can be implemented anywhere food is served. Not long ago, nutrition was thought of as having only a modest influence on health. Food gave us taste and calories, and not much else. Dr. Neal Barnard’s research, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, broke that mold. It showed that, with appropriate food choices, type 2 diabetes was a potentially reversible condition for many people. His continuing research yielded surprising findings for many everyday health conditions from cholesterol and weight issues to menstrual cramps, migraines, and menopausal symptoms.

Extended trailer for this 2018 documentary film focused on why US Americans are suffering and dying from chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune disease, among other diseases, and how the outcomes can be avoided by making better (vegan!) food choices.

Farm Forward implements innovative strategies to promote conscientious food choices, reduce farmed animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture by changing farming, changing policy, and changing the story we tell about animal agriculture.

How our food choices may influence disease prevention and treatment.

This couple of geese lived together in a Chinese village since they met. They loved and cared for each other. Hopefully, their heartbreaking story will help people make kinder food choices.

Vegan dietitian Sadia, helped by her colleague Sofia, discusses chrononutrition--and how to avoid always feeling tired via better food and beverage choices in this 2022 video.

In this online series HEATING UP, which debuted on Tuesday 17 August 2021 with this Episode 1, co-hosts journalist Natalie Bencivenga and youth climate activist Leandra Mira of Pittsburgh PA USA offer vegan cooking recipes, and conservation about social justice and climate change. Two Pittsburghers launched a YouTube series that covers vegan cooking and climate change – and all of the episodes are now available. Bencivenga and Mira created the series to reach a multigenerational audience (Bencivenga is a millennial, and Mira is a Gen Z-er), and talk about the real ways that climate change is impacting Pittsburgh on a cellular level. “For us, we felt it was such an important show to do, especially because we thought that we could reach such a large audience who would be interested in this message,” Bencivenga says. “We wanted to talk to thought leaders from the Pittsburgh market about the burden of the climate crisis, and what we all can do.” Not only do Bencivenga and Mira both live and work in Pittsburgh, but the two felt that focusing on this area was an especially important choice when discussing climate change.“ We don’t really think about it a lot, but we’re sort of right in the heart of the climate change crisis here in Pennsylvania,” she says. “What we do here can have an impact on the world. The choices that we are making here – both on a personal and local level and with our leadership – are important.” Each episode features the pair talking with two guests over vegan food.