Save My Lake is a one-hour television documentary that set off alarm bells by revealing the science behind the ecological time bomb of algae that is infesting Lake Winnipeg, the world’s 10th largest freshwater lake that sits at the heart of North America. Narrated by David Suzuki, it premiered on CBC’s The Nature of Things April 2011.

Most people (68% in the US) support minimizing and eventually eliminating all forms of animal cruelty and suffering, yet in practice our compassion rarely extends beyond our companion animals and the few species of wildlife we consider worthy of protection. The result is that billions of lives are invisible, existing only in the shadows of our highly mechanized world: animals raised and slaughtered for food; animals held captive for entertainment purposes; animals used in research experiments; and animals killed for their fur or skin.