What you should know about the pro-vegan Netflix film 'What the Health'

Aug 16, 2017, 11:38 AM

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The recent pro-vegan [f500link]Netflix[/f500link] documentary, What the Health, is under fire from nutrition experts. The film, which is co-directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn—the creators of another Netflix documentary, Cowspiracy—and co-produced by actor Joaquin Phoenix, is being criticized by some health professionals for exaggerating weak data and misrepresenting science to promote a diet that avoids all animal foods.

TIME fact-checked the film.