Compassionate Clichés
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2007
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A culture’s language reflects the values of that society, and our shared use of that language reflects our agreement with those values. Today I want to examine how our use of common idioms and proverbs denigrates animals and contributes to our violence against them; I'd like to take a look at the origins of some of these expressions and offer some compassionate versions that will replace the more violent, offensive ones. My hope is that we can find ways to express ourselves that reflect not exploitation and violence but respect, compassion, empathy, kindness, and truth.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.0 | I founded Compassionate Cook cooks to empower people to make |
| 0:24.2 | informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can |
| 0:30.3 | learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:33.6 | compassionate cooks.com or the website of our new cookbook Joy of vegan baking.com. |
| 0:41.5 | Hello everybody. My first piece of advice to you is to never record a podcast |
| 0:46.7 | episode without plugging in the computer first I thought I'd have enough life on the |
| 0:51.6 | battery and unfortunately I lost the entire podcast episode that I recorded already |
| 0:56.4 | So this is the second time I'm recording this episode. Yeah, so lesson learned won't do that again. |
| 1:02.5 | So, good to be here with you. |
| 1:05.3 | I apologize for skipping a week. |
| 1:07.2 | I have been pretty busy, and I was really anxious to record this episode today, which is why it's such a bummer that I lost all that work, because I had to literally drag myself inside from outside because it's like perfect day to day. |
| 1:20.0 | It's just perfect weather. We get a lot of perfect days here in Northern California, but today's like exceptionally perfect. Anyway, moving on. First, I'd like to thank our sponsor. The sponsor for today's podcast is Joseph Reese, who I had the pleasure of meeting in Washington, D.C. when I was speaking |
| 1:35.9 | there a few months ago and he wrote me such a lovely email, which I would like to share with you now. |
| 1:41.3 | He wrote, it would be inappropriate for me to start my email with |
| 1:44.6 | anything but thanks, so thank you. While I found your podcast and later your website as |
| 1:49.7 | a vegan, it has kept me strong, informed and motivated in the turmoil of high school. |
| 1:56.2 | By being part of my routine through your podcast, you have enabled me to constantly remind myself |
| 2:01.3 | of what I consider my life's mission despite its constant subjugation at the |
| 2:06.0 | omnipotent weight of popular acceptance. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm able to transmit this empowerment to my work through the American University Animal Rights |
| 2:15.0 | effort, a U A-U-A-R-E, aware it sounds like with a U. |
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