‘WILD HOPE’: New vegan documentary explores turning cattle ranches into forests
'WILD HOPE: Mission Impossible', follows Pat Brown (founder of Impossible Foods) and scientist Michael Eisen as they investigate how to convert former cattle ranches into biodiverse, carbon-capturing forests on a thousand-acre property in Arkansas they name 'The Carbon Ranch.'
LIAM PRITCHETT: Pat Brown, the founder and CEO of plant-based meat company Impossible Foods, is the subject of a new documentary about his attempt to turn cattle ranches into forests. The film, titled WILD HOPE: Mission Impossible, follows Brown and scientist Michael Eisen as they investigate how to convert former cattle ranches into biodiverse, carbon-capturing forests on a thousand-acre property in Arkansas they name “The Carbon Ranch.”
Brown is a pioneering biochemist and former Stanford professor who shifted his focus to the production of plant-based foods over a decade ago. Brown founded Impossible in 2011 after trying to figure out what “the most important” way to improve the world would be…
WILD HOPE: Mission Impossible is based on Andrew Balmford’s book Wild Hope. It was produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and released as an episode of the Wild Hope TV series about “heroic stories of biodiversity.” It is available via the PBS app and is streaming for free on PBS.org, the PBS/Nature YouTube channel, and WildHope.TV
“My purpose in participating in the documentary was to make people aware that it’s essential to eliminate the use of animals [and] technology for producing meat, fish, and dairy foods,” Brown told Plant Based News. “And then to restore native ecosystems on the vast land area currently used for animal agriculture in order to put the brakes on global heating and halt and reverse the catastrophic global collapse of biodiverse ecosystems”…
A 2021 analysis by BVA Nudge Consulting suggested that Impossible Foods had converted 33 million Americans to plant-based meat at the time of writing. Around 72 percent of the brand’s sales replace would-be meat purchases, significantly reducing overall consumption. SOURCE…
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