Sacred Cow
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Description
Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers and Callie T. Wiser pushes back against the idea that meat itself is the problem, shifting the argument toward food quality, land use, nutrient density, and the way animals are raised. Its frame is blunt but clear: industrial agriculture and regenerative agriculture are not morally or nutritionally interchangeable. Health, ethics, and sustainability stay tightly linked throughout, which makes the film less about defending beef in the abstract and more about questioning the assumptions behind modern anti-meat messaging.
Director / Filmmaker
Diana Rodgers
About the Director / Filmmaker
Diana Rodgers, director and producer, works as a registered dietitian, author, and sustainability advocate focused on human nutrition, regenerative agriculture, and food justice. Through Sustainable Dish, a long-running podcast, public speaking, and clinical practice, she has built a public-facing body of work around food systems and health. She also founded the Global Food Justice Alliance and co-authored Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat.
Diana Rodgers, director and producer, works as a registered dietitian, author, and sustainability advocate focused on human nutrition, regenerative agriculture, and food justice. Through Sustainable Dish, a long-running podcast, public speaking, and clinical practice, she has built a public-facing body of work around food systems and health. She also founded the Global Food Justice Alliance and co-authored Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat.
Topic
Nutrition
Who It’s Best For
Viewers sorting through the meat debate from a nutrition, land-use, and ethics angle are the clearest fit here. A useful second audience is anyone questioning whether industrial farming and regenerative grazing should be treated as the same thing.
Production Company / Studio
Nutrition Media, LLC, Uncork'd Entertainment
Approach
Positioned as a rebuttal, the film organizes nutrition, ethics, and land-use claims around a defense of livestock-based agriculture. Its case is overtly revisionist, favoring contrarian experts and selective myth-correction over any neutral balancing of the debate.
Duration
80 Minutes
Year
2020
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