And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed

food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more

about who we are and what we do by visiting our website

Compassionate cooks.com. Hello everyone, how are you doing today? I'm doing very

well. Thank you for asking. Great to be here. First and foremost I would like to thank today's sponsor

Laurie Farner, who I had the great pleasure of meeting last year I think it was she was one of the participants in Dr

McDougal's program and I teach for Dr McDougal a couple times a month it's about an

hour from here in Santa Rosa and she was just so lovely and so generous and so wonderful and sweet.

She was already vegan when we met but she's been a supporter of my work since

then and we've become friends via email. It's really amazing to me. I feel like I have a relationship

with so many of you. I wish I could take more time to communicate with you, but that's what's

been so nice about the message board. I feel like I'm introducing all of my friends to one another and it's just great to see all of you connecting.

You know that feeling when you're introducing friends of yours, each of whom you love love but who have never met each other and

you get really excited because you want your friends to meet and then they do and they hit it off.

That's what it feels like.

It's watching all of you connect on the message board since I know you and I

know how wonderful all of you are I love just watching all of you connect with each

other so it's really fantastic so do do check out the message board and register for it and just get involved

and just meet all the fantastic people out there listening to this podcast.

So anyway, Lori is today's sponsor and I'm very grateful to her.

When I thanked her for her sponsorship, she wrote that it's always my pleasure to promote

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