Down with Feathers

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2009

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The campaign against "plumaged headwear" was one of the most successful in the early animal advocacy movement in the United States, ultimately creating legislative protection for birds and a cultural shift in terms of how the public viewed feathered hats. A once-coveted fashion item became the symbol of cruelty and selfishness as the result of a boycott against it. Today, feathers and down - cruelly-begotten products of an incredibly lucrative industry - show up stuffed in our comforters and puffed up in our coats. Though geese and ducks are the primary victims, ostriches, too, suffer immense pain and distress as the result of humans taking their soft down and colorful plumes.

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0:00.0	And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Adro from Compassionate Cooks.
0:22.3	I founded Compassionate Cooks. I founded compassionate cooks to empower people, to make
0:25.6	informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn
0:31.5	more about who we are and what we do by visiting
0:34.2	our website. One of our websites is Compassionate cooks.com. From there you can do all
0:39.0	sorts of things. You can check out our cookbooks, our cooking DVD, our Compassion in Action CD, articles and essays,
0:46.6	you can join our message board, you can become a compassionate cooks member, and you can
0:50.4	check out all sorts of recipes and resources so compassionate cooks.
0:57.1	So thanks for checking it out and thank you for being here.
1:00.9	Before we do anything else I would like to thank today's listener sponsor.
1:05.2	We have one today.
1:06.7	And her name is Rose Lennon.
1:08.6	Hi Rose, who is actually sponsoring today's episode in honor of some of her friends. Here's what Rose
1:14.9	wrote to me. Hi Colleen it was my friends who alerted me to your podcast which in
1:21.2	turn helped me to transition from a vegetarian diet to a
1:24.8	vegan lifestyle and it has been one of the best decisions of my 21 year life.
1:29.4	Your podcast is so encouraging and I was soon pestering my mom Jane to listen to them. My
1:36.3	mother was vegan for a little while about 10 years ago. She's very open to
1:40.1	different foods and is known for being a creative whiz in the kitchen. She very rarely
1:44.9	follows a recipe. After listening to a few of your podcast episodes, my mom stopped eating animal
1:50.7	flesh and a short time later she stopped eating animal secretions as well.
1:55.0	I quickly got over my annoyance at having to share my soy milk supply, just kidding, and was
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