And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. This is Colleen Patrick Gudreau with Compassionate Cooks.

I founded compassionate cooks to

empower people to make informed food choices and to

debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. I do this through

cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures, and workshops,

articles and essays, this podcast and a cooking DVD. You can learn more about who we are

and what we do by visiting our website compassionate cooks.com.

I hope you're all doing well out there.

Thank you to those of you who have sent me letters via email and via snail mail. As always your email may be unanswered as of yet, but it is not

forgotten. I promise I reply to it whenever I can as soon as I can. Thank you to those who have left comments on places like

iTunes. Strangely enough, several of your comments have actually disappeared and though I've

written to iTunes several times about this, it hasn't been rectified yet. So if you've

written in the past, if you've placed comments on iTunes in the past, and your comment is gone,

you might want to go check it out. Perhaps you'd like to repost. And feel free to leave a comment if you haven't done so already,

if you feel inclined to do so. Also, please subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already.

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have any questions for me any suggestions for me you can do so at podcast at compassionate cooks.com.

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