Good News for Animals and Nature: 10 Reasons for Hope
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As another year comes to a close, I wanted to give you 10 reasons to be hopeful for animals and nature by focusing on some good news from 2022.
There are many reasons to celebrate, and I hope you do! For more details, check out the blog post Good News for Animals and Nature (2022).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Adro. I'm your host. My work is dedicated to |
| 0:22.2 | empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. You can learn more |
| 0:27.3 | about who I am and what I do by visiting my website JoyfulVegan.com. Today's episode is |
| 0:34.0 | Reasons for Hope, Good News for Animals and Nature from 2022. Hello everyone. I hope you're doing |
| 0:41.6 | fabulously well. We are back from our month-long trip to Africa. We were in Rwanda, our fourth |
| 0:48.4 | tour of Rwanda. We were in South Africa and in Botswana and it's really good to be home. We had a |
| 0:57.0 | fabulous time but there's nothing like coming home and sleeping in your own bed. The year is at an |
| 1:02.5 | end and I wanted to give you some reason for hope. I know there are lots of news stories and posts |
| 1:12.0 | and people you follow where we can get pretty overwhelmed by bad news and I'm here to give you |
| 1:19.1 | some good news depending on what we focus on. Of course we can always find reasons for despair |
| 1:24.8 | and we can always find reasons for hope. It's really a matter of what we choose to dwell on and |
| 1:29.7 | this episode is all about giving you reasons for hope and optimism. There's also a blog post |
| 1:35.2 | over at JoyfulVegan.com to accompany this with some beautiful photos and links and the ability |
| 1:41.9 | to share very easily. As you know, I do not feel that focusing on hope is a license for complacency. |
| 1:51.7 | In fact, I think it's a reason to stay active and you've heard me talk about hope a lot. I hope, |
| 1:57.1 | I hope, you've heard me talk about hope and ironically I do think that sometimes people who are |
| 2:05.1 | hopeful can be criticized for being delusional, polyanna and I don't share that opinion. I wrote |
| 2:12.8 | an essay, several essays but one of the essays I wrote was for KQD Radio where I'm a contributor |
| 2:18.7 | or who I'm a contributor for and I'll just give you the gist. I have been an animal advocate |
| 2:24.4 | for more than 25 years and I've seen enough cruelty to have a pretty bleak view of the world |
| 2:30.1 | and yet I have hope. No, I am not a mythical creature. No, I'm not delusional and yes, I'm paying |
| 2:36.1 | attention and I go on to say that despite all of these things that are wrong in the world, |
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