Cat Cafes: Helpful or Harmful
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Cat cafes have become a popular trend all around the world, but who do they ultimately serve? Are they just about the schtick, or can they play a role in helping people adopt homeless cats? Today's podcast episode explores this topic, offers some questions we should be asking, and provides a model that other cat cafes might follow.
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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 and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gidro and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.0 | My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion |
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| 0:53.6 | We're still trying to reach that first goal to continue working for you and for the animals. |
| 0:58.8 | And if you're in the Seattle, Washington area, I have mentioned I will be in Port Townsend speaking on March 13th about the joys and benefits of living vegan, so please bring friends and save the date. |
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| 1:34.6 | We will be having our celebration in Oakland, California Memorial Day weekend, which is May |
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| 1:49.8 | that weekend. I'm so excited. I hope you can make it to this love fest it is going to be very |
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| 2:15.8 | But as I said today we're going to discuss cat cafes which have become very |
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