Eating for World Peace
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2008
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I read an excerpt from a very special book called The World Peace Diet, written by Will Tuttle. Will is one of these amazing people who uses his compassion and wisdom in order to create the world we all envision - a world of peace and kindness and nonviolence and high consciousness. The excerpt I read provides an appropriate segue to talk briefly about the USDA's "Animal Damage Control" program (now euphemistically called (Wildlife Services) which kills millions of wild animals every year on behalf of cattle, sheep, and other "livestock" ranchers. Just one more reason that animal consumption and "environmentalism" cannot co-exist.
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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 |
| 0:24.4 | informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:29.2 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:33.8 | www. Compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:38.4 | Hi everybody, welcome to today's podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I have a bit of a cold so unfortunately it will be forever |
| 0:44.8 | memorialized on this podcast episode and I hope I don't sound too ridiculous so |
| 0:50.2 | hopefully that won't distract you from hearing today's message. So I hope you're all doing well. |
| 0:56.1 | Today's sponsor is Rosanne Muru Lee. Rosanne sponsored the podcast and replied to my thank you with guess what a really beautiful a really |
| 1:06.2 | lovely email she thanked me for doing the podcast and she wrote what you're |
| 1:11.4 | doing is incredibly inspiring the thing that's been the hardest |
| 1:14.7 | thing for me since I became vegan a year ago after being vegetarian for about three years has |
| 1:20.3 | been finding the middle ground between downplaying my responses to people |
| 1:24.8 | to avoid preaching at them or making them feel bad and taking the bait from hostile people |
| 1:31.0 | who are obviously interested in only one thing arguing. |
| 1:34.9 | Your podcasts present thoughtful articulate responses to the questions and pseudo questions that |
| 1:40.3 | we hear all the time, but it's the tone of your answers that sets you apart. |
| 1:44.0 | The fact that there's no defensiveness or animosity in them is as powerful if not more so |
| 1:49.0 | than the responses themselves. Thanks for that. Thank you, Roseanne. I know it's not always easy to find |
| 1:54.9 | that middle ground, but I do think it's essential, obviously. Finding the |
| 1:59.0 | middle ground between speaking the truth, speaking for animals, and not getting all riled up can be difficult. |
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