Since becoming vegan, I've had to avoid most vegan documentaries. It's as much as I can stand to read books like "Introduction to Animal Rights" by Gary L. Francione or "This is Vegan Propaganda" by Ed Winters, with written descriptions and still photographs of the living hell humanity puts trillions of animals through annually. But this is a documentary I can watch. There are no visuals of animals suffering, you don't have to be haunted by their unanswerable cries for help, there aren't even graphic verbal descriptions. But the fight to save them is ever-present. I frequently recall a line Fiona Oakes states in this documentary, talking about how hot it is, running an ultra marathon in the unforgiving desert, but how it's nothing compared to the suffering of animals being transported for slaughter, crammed together in the deadly heat, sometimes for days, with no water. If you want to see what a vegan lifestyle can do for you as an athlete and for quality longevity, if you want to be inspired by the story of someone who comes back from a diagnosis of 'you'll be lucky to walk again' to claim multiple world records in running, if you want to see what finishing the epic Marathon des Sables takes, or if you want to see what makes an animal activist tick, watch Running for Good!
