And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed food

choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more about

who we are and what we do by visiting our website

compassionate cooks.com.

Hi everybody, surprise, I'm here sooner than you expected. The podcast have comfortably fallen into a

schedule of every two weeks and I've been wanting to make them more frequent but

they do require a lot of work and now I'm struggling with severe wrist pain from being

on the computer too much.

So it's just been hard to do the podcast more often than every two weeks and on top of the

other projects that I have going on.

But here I am nonetheless, and though I don't want to make any promises, I'm going to try and

alternate a regular podcast with one like this one today that offers a supplement

to topics I've already covered and I'll do this by way of a narrative, by way of a story that expands upon or illustrates the broader topics we cover.

Today, for example, I want to read you an essay by Jewel Johnson of the Peaceful Prairie called a rare glimpse inside a free-range farm.

You can read this yourself on Peaceful Prairie's website,

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Peaceful Prairie.org, but I've been wanting to share this with you ever since I read it myself.

And I thought it would be a really good addition and addendum, if you will, to some of the earlier podcasts where we talked about the problems

with the idea of humane eggs or free-range eggs or cage-free eggs and how these terms tend to be marketing terms rather than a reflection of reality

rather than a reflection of what we think that reality is when we hear those words.

Before I do this, I want to thank the sponsors of today's podcast.

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