Celebrating Halloween and Thanksgiving Without Compromising Your Values
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2008
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When we closely examine the traditions of such holidays as Thanksgiving and Halloween, we see that we can honor their deeper meanings while still honoring our ethics and our values. Much of what informs our consciousness about these holidays is myth, which is fine. It’s fine to use myth to create rituals and traditions, but the point I make in this episode is that we pick and choose our cultural and personal traditions all the time, and these choices don't necessarily reflect some historical fact. I also spend a great deal of time talking about how vegan children can partake in all the fun of Halloween without being deprived. Finally, I offer some suggestions for using Halloween as an opportunity for advocacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Godreau from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:20.1 | I founded compassionate cooks to empower people, |
| 0:22.8 | to make informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:28.8 | I do this through cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, articles and essays, |
| 0:34.6 | this podcast, a cooking DVD and a cookbook called The Joy of Vegan |
| 0:40.0 | Baking. You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting www.compassionate |
| 0:47.0 | cooks.com and www.w.joyofveganbaking.com. Hi, everybody. I hope you're all doing well. Thank you, as always, to those who |
| 0:57.3 | have sent me emails and letters. You make my day so much brighter with your sweet words and your |
| 1:02.9 | stories of transformation. I'm always touched that you take the time to share these with me and just know |
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