Benji: My Gateway Film into Animal Advocacy
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
My love of film began when I was very young and my parents took me to the movies every Friday night. Granted, some of the films I saw were incredibly inappropriate for my age, but I'll always be grateful for seeing Benji in the theatre when I was 6 years old. I almost didn't make it through for all the tears I cried, but it is truly one of my earliest memories of realizing how empathic I am. If someone else is suffering, I can't help but suffer, too - and so we have the beginning of my animal advocacy. Also, some great callers with great questions for how to live compassionately and healthfully; i.e. vegan.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Animalearn - animalearn.org
V-Dog - v-dog.com
eCornell Center for Nutrition Studies - nutritionstudies.org
Music featured:
"Across the Lake" by Gosta Berling - gostaberling.com
Transcript
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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 compassion |
| 0:16.6 | and optimal wellness. |
| 0:18.2 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:21.6 | The mission in my work is to empower people to manifest their values of compassion and wellness in their everyday lives at every moment. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan's Daily Companion, |
| 0:36.3 | and On Being Vegan. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm also the creator and host of The 30 Day Vegan Challenge, soon to be a book again. I'll talk more about that at another time. |
| 0:46.6 | The 30-day vegan challenge gives you everything you need to make the transition |
| 0:51.1 | healthfully, joyfully, and deliciously, and you can learn more about who |
| 0:55.3 | I am and what I do by visiting my website, Colleen Patrick Goudreau.com. I want to thank first and foremost the American Anti-Vivisection Society, |
| 1:06.3 | actually Animal Learn, who is the education arm of the American Anti-Vivisection |
| 1:11.8 | society is one of the sponsors for today's podcast and they have |
| 1:15.4 | been my go-to resource for honestly decades. I kid you not. This is the first organization that |
| 1:21.1 | I found 25 years ago when I first became an animal advocate and I really have the first |
| 1:23.0 | became an animal advocate and I really have loved them ever since. |
| 1:27.0 | Aside from the work they do to end the use of animals and laboratories, |
| 1:31.0 | AAVS in general, the American Anti-Vivisection society, they do amazing work through |
| 1:36.3 | their education division called Animal Learn, which is literally the perfect resource to learn |
| 1:41.8 | more about compassion in the classroom, humane education, |
| 1:46.2 | and especially humane science education. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm so heartened by the number of people who have been responding to my request to visit animal |
| 1:56.1 | learn dot org that's hard to say compassion slash compassion and get resources from animal. I've heard from so many people who had |
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