Drawing the Line: How Vegan is Vegan?
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2008
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What if I had my own hens and ate her eggs? What if I had my own cow or goat and drank her milk? What about honey? Is it considered "vegan"? These are some of the questions people ask as they begin to consider the ethical issues of consuming animal products. Though I don't pretend to have the one definitive answer, I am happy to share my thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:22.0 | 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 |
| 0:31.1 | learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:34.4 | Compassionate cooks.com and I also encourage you to join our message board at |
| 0:39.6 | Compassionate cooks community.com. everyone. I hope you're all doing well. |
| 0:45.0 | My heart is a little heavy today as I grieve the loss of Studley at Farm Sanctuary. |
| 0:51.0 | He was one of the goats with whom I was very close and I'll talk |
| 0:54.8 | more about him later on but I wanted to dedicate this episode to him to Studley. |
| 1:00.1 | I also would like to thank today's sponsor, Delina McMichael, who has an intriguing story, I think. |
| 1:07.0 | She sent me the following email. |
| 1:09.0 | I became vegan from a total meat eater. |
| 1:12.0 | In fact, I would classify myself as a carnivore of the highest caliber and a cheese-aholic. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm a pit bull lover and was doing some research about the banning of certain breeds through YouTube. |
| 1:24.0 | This led to videos about dogfights and other cruel practices, and this in turn led to videos |
| 1:29.0 | about animal rights, veganism, and videos such as PETA's Meet Your Meat. I am not a person who believes that |
| 1:35.9 | ignorance is bliss. I'm a firm believer that knowledge is power and I'm constantly |
| 1:40.5 | doing research on everything. After two weeks of research I made the |
| 1:44.6 | announcement to my husband that I would be vegan. I explained that this would mean |
| 1:48.7 | not eating any animal products and getting rid of the pork chops in our freezer and |
| 1:52.4 | yes the cheese whiz as well. I |
| 1:55.0 | I explained to him that he could choose not to do this but that it would |
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