And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Adro. I am an educator and

author dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking myths about veganism and animal rights, to being a voice for animals, and to giving people the tools and resources they need to live according to their own values

of compassion and wellness.

I always say that I'm not asking people to live according to my values, I'm urging people

to live according to theirs.

You can find out more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website

Colleen Patrick Goodro or The Compassionate Cook.com.

Hi everybody, I am so thrilled to be here.

As always, I have been traveling a lot

and meeting a lot of you in person.

So it has kept me a bit from recording or writing any podcast

episodes but I really do feel like I'll be able to get back into a regular

pattern now and I appreciate your patience so much it's been such a

pleasure to meet so many of you on the road I would love to thank first our

listener members who support this podcast to support the work that

I do and please forgive me if I don't pronounce your name correctly there's some beautiful

names here and I'm not really sure that I'm going to get the pronunciation right but

Olivia Schultz Nina Perique Victoria Greer Lisa Towell Dana Grampry

Emily Heftet, Danelle Rani, Alexandra Spotholt, Laura Yasinsky, T Clark, Marion

Blackmer, Elizabeth D, Melissa Clayton Tidalka, Stephanie Hagelson, Devon St. Clair, and

Amanda Mann. Those are easy ones, those last two. And I know who you are. So thank you everybody so much for your

support. It really means so much to me. I said I know who Devon and Amanda are. I've

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