The film tries to do too many things, biting off more than it can really chew, but it's an easy watch and hearing Kateman's dad wax rhapsodic about learning to love broccoli is easily the most hopeful thing in the entire story.

Meat Me Halfway is not a preachy documentary that pushes a one-sided animal-rights agenda. It's a well-rounded film with diverse viewpoints and options to help people decide if they want to be meat eaters or non-meat eaters.

I can say I was engaged with the film and found myself not only questioning his facts and opinions but questioning my own as well, which is a good thing.

While this feels like propaganda waiting to mislead a generation of people, the documentary provides a well-balanced look at how meat consumption, its reduction, and trudging towards a vegetable-based diet is the need of the hour.