A showing of the documentary Tapped was viewed on the Utah State University campus Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Science Learning Center Auditorium. The movie was shown as part of the events for Earth Week. The movie was preceded by a panel of experts on the matter.
One of the experts on the panel was David Stevens, a professor of environmental engineering at Utah State University.
“I think that the university is doing a pretty good job with trying to do the right thing,” Stevens said. “It’s hard in places where there aren’t a lot of resources.”
The film was centered around one major company, Nestle Corporation, and the industry’s negative effects on the world. According to the movie, Nestle’s plastic bottles and byproducts were a major contributor of illness and death all over the world.
Emily Anderson, a biology major who attended the showing, thought that the movie brought awareness to issues not commonly talked about.
“This movie was really eye-opening for me, I had no idea about some of the stuff that is going on. The hardest part for me was all the waste that plastic bottles cause,” Anderson said. “There was one scene where they showed all the waste that gets swept off into the ocean and it made me sick to see all that garbage polluting our oceans.”
Jordan Lofthouse, who also saw the film, thought the show was “a good way to gain knowledge about the issues” and use it to make an educated decision.
“I think it’s good to keep these ideas in perspective,” Lofthouse said. “Obviously the industry has a narrative they want us to believe and these people have a different narrative they want us to believe and I think that once you look at all sides and weigh the issues then you can begin to form decisions about the matter.
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