This past Monday, Hawaii News Now aired parts 3 & 4 of their series, A Climate for Change, a four-part series created by Green Island films. Each episode takes a look at the issues in Hawaii such as the devastating bleaching of reefs, homelessness, the disastrous rail project, COVID-19, Hawaii’s dependence on food and goods from the continent, and a lack of infrastructure to produce our own food. More on that in a moment. I watched the trailer skeptically for parts 3 & 4, as I always watch these things, waiting for the anti-meat propaganda to come. I had hoped that the filmmakers would take a balanced, nuanced approach to diet, nutrition, meat eating, agriculture, and the environment. They didn’t. But the most alarming aspect of it, given where we are as a country, society, is that the filmmakers promote an idea of one diet, one way to eat.  This tactic is so deeply rooted in colonialism that it begs the question --, Have they been asleep?