A Dog's Tale: A Short Story by Mark Twain
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2009
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In 1903, Mark Twain published the short story “A Dog’s Tale” in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, and the following year, it was released it as a book. Though it tends to be overshadowed by his more famous works, the story received public and critical acclaim, and as Diane Beers writes in her book, For the Prevention of Cruelty,it “is to this day a persuasive literary weapon for animal advocacy.” And I agree with her when she writes, “Twain’s deceptively simple little tale gave a powerful voice to the voiceless and laid bare human cruelty and arrogance.” A lovely sad tale worthy of remembrance.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Edro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed food choices and to |
| 0:26.2 | debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. I encourage you to check out compassionate |
| 0:31.0 | cooks.com to check out compassionate cooks |
| 0:34.0 | club to order our cookbooks the joy of vegan baking the vegan table |
| 0:38.0 | to connect with other podcast listeners and to just find lots of resources and recipes and information about living a compassionate healthful life. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi everybody, I hope you're all doing well out there. |
| 0:52.0 | First I'd like to thank some supporters of the podcast and |
| 0:55.3 | compassionate cooks. Charles Tsai is a long time supporter from Vancouver, |
| 1:00.7 | British Columbia and he's an all-around great guy and activist. I mentioned and thanked him in a previous episode, which I think was a couple years ago now, so his name might sound familiar to you. |
| 1:12.0 | He's the founder of the Global Youth Fund, which is a Canadian charity that provides |
| 1:16.7 | young people with training and support to become effective leaders in the world. |
| 1:21.1 | They've got some really wonderful projects going on on their website and I |
| 1:24.1 | encourage you to check them out. Charles did not ask me to say any of this but I want to |
| 1:28.3 | honor the work that he does in this world and so I encourage you to check out at global youth fund.org. So thank you |
| 1:36.8 | Charles for who you are and for all you do and for all your support. I'm so very |
| 1:41.3 | grateful and I really appreciate it. I also want to |
| 1:44.4 | thank Sherry Morgado. Sherry wrote to me first early in 2009 and then she wrote |
| 1:50.3 | again in mid-2009 and here's what she had to say in the second email. |
| 1:55.6 | I first wrote to you a brief email a few months ago and since that time I have been |
| 1:59.5 | meeting to do something very important which is to become a podcast sponsor. I just completed my transaction |
| 2:04.9 | with PayPal and that feels great. There are simply not enough superlatives in the English |
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