Keegan Kuhn
Keegan Kuhn is an American documentary filmmaker known for making Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret and What the Health, with Kip Andersen. He also co-wrote, produced and directed They’re Trying To Kill Us, with John Lewis. The film explores racial inequality within the food system. Kuhn founded First Spark Media, a film production company, which produces films about social justice issues for companies and charity organisations.
Kuhn told the Viva! Vegan Podcast that he was raised as an ethical vegetarian with two rules: “don’t hurt anybody and question authority.” When he was 11 years old he discovered punk rock and Earth Crisis, a vegan band who wrote – and still write – music about animal liberation, the environment and other social justice issues. They talked about the violence inflicted on dairy cows, egg-laying hens and the environment so Kuhn realised that being vegetarian didn’t fit with his “do no harm” ethic. Therefore, at the ripe old age of 12, Kuhn decided enough is enough and he’s been vegan ever since.
In 2022, he wrote on Instagram:
“I’ve been vegan now 25 years and to be honest, I’m still the pissed off vegan. I became vegan because I love and value freedom above all else. I want freedom for myself, for other humans, for non-human animals, for entire ecosystems. With a tremendous amount of frustration I see so many not having the freedom they deserve. Freedom to decide what they do with their own bodies, freedom to move, freedom from exploitation and needless suffering. I’m enraged by self proclaimed professors of freedom who seek to control others, who use their power to brutalise and dominate, who only care about their own freedom to oppress. I’m not for laws, particularly laws of morality, that is why I’ve dedicated my life to promoting culture change, for total liberation.”
