Being Vegan is a Means to An End. It is Not An End in Itself.
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2013
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I share my experience - and a fun audio clip - from my recent visit to Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, the Albany (NY) VegFest, and Red Robin Song Animal Sanctuary (and vegan guest house). I also answer your questions about whether or not it's "vegan" to visit natural history museums (that feature stuffed dead animals), about what I feed my cats, and about what my favorite teas are. I wrap up today's episode with The Compassionate Life segment in which I share my story about going from a compassionate child to a desensitized adult and back again. Today's Tweetable: "Being vegan is not about trying to be perfect. It’s about doing the best we can do avoid causing harm to someone else."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional |
| 0:16.5 | compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:19.2 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I am your host. |
| 0:23.0 | The mission in my work is to empower people to manifest their values of compassion and |
| 0:27.2 | wellness in their everyday lives. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, the vegan table, Color Me vegan, |
| 0:34.0 | vegan's daily companion and on being vegan. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm also the creator and host of the 30-day vegan challenge, |
| 0:40.6 | which gives you everything you need |
| 0:42.0 | to make the transition healthfully, joyfully, and |
| 0:45.2 | deliciously. You can check out 30-day vegan challenge.com. You can learn more about who I am and what |
| 0:52.3 | I do by visiting Compassionate Cook. |
| 0:55.0 | From there you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and all of the other wonderful social networking sites. |
| 1:02.0 | This podcast is listener supported so please. other wonderful social networking sites. |
| 1:02.7 | This podcast is listener supported so please accept my sincerest gratitude to all of you who |
| 1:08.7 | support this podcast. |
| 1:10.6 | First and foremost, thank you to my amazing and very international platinum members |
| 1:16.4 | US Army Captain Janie Maina stationed in South Korea Deborah McDowell in Canada |
| 1:26.0 | members of the Norwegian Vegan Society in Norwegian, I'm kidding in Norway. Grace Rodriguez, where are you Grace? I don't |
| 1:31.8 | I don't know if I know where you are. Tim Anderson in |
| 1:34.8 | California David Cabrera and Alexander Gray in New York City. Alexander |
| 1:40.0 | Gray Associates also in New York City please check out Alexander Gray.com |
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