I Could Never Go Vegan (12A)
Directed by Thomas Pickering
★★★

 
FILM-MAKER Thomas Pickering, who has never eaten meat in his life, embarks on a fact-finding mission to investigate people’s reasons and concerns as to why they could never go vegan. 

These include lack of protein, being malnourished, and their love of bacon and cheese. The same old arguments that his mother was confronted with when she decided to stop eating meat back in the 1980s, as she informs him. 

Pickering interviews health experts as well as vegan athletes and ordinary people doing extraordinary things such as 86-year-old Paul Youd, an ultramarathon runner who didn’t begin running until he was 82.