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I've seen a couple food-related documentaries on Netflix.

They were a complete disaster of oversimplification with biases so evident that it made them impossible to watch.

Netflix has some great documentaries (Icarus is really good) but I would stay away from anything related from alimentary/food sustainability issues.

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I suppose its possible that you're just aware of more nuance in food-related things and that an average consumer like me would call those documentaries okay too.

you are right, a Gell-Mann amnesia effect is possible.

But I think I'm as ignorant about agricultural issues as I am about athletics, it's just that if you look at, say, What the Health[0] or Cowspiracy[1] you immediately get a feeling the crew started with a thesis and then looked for reasons to sustain it, but didn't bother at all with different views.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Health

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowspiracy

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