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. From there you can check out our cookbook

The Joy of vegan baking, our cooking DVD, our articles articles and essays or you can join the message

board which is a great way to connect with other podcast listeners so thank you

for being here. Hi everybody I hope you're all well. Before we get started I have a

very very exciting announcement to make many of you have asked for this and your

wish has come true. We now have podcast sampler CDs.

Thanks to Marty and Wendy Beckers who sponsored this project and Chris Marco who designed

the CDs we now have a sampler CD. It's beautiful. It contains five

podcast episodes including a welcome introduction from me and the five

episodes are the protein myth and vegetarianism.

Where do I get my calcium if I don't drink cow's milk?

What's wrong with eating eggs since the hens aren't killed?

Ten tips for eating veg in social situations and how humane are humane meat, dairy, and eggs.

And I think it's a good compilation.

I think it's a compilation that encompasses the various topics we cover.

I was limited to 70 minutes, so it's difficult to put a lot on there.

And since I got pretty long-winded after the first several episodes, I really had to choose

carefully to find a nice variety.

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