I Eat Only "White Meat" - In Defense of Chickens

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2008

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Though in many ways we admire so much about chickens (the maternal instinct of mother hens, the irresistible "cuteness" of baby chicks, the iridescent plumage of rooters), unfortunately our admiration doesn't translate into kindness towards them. Chickens born, kept, and killed for their flesh and for their eggs may very well be the most abused animals on the planet. Of the over 10 billion animals killed for human consumption in the U.S. every year, over 9.4 billion of these animals are chickens, including those killed once their "egg production" drops. This mass slaughter affects not only the victims themselves but those who are paid to do this difficult and bloody work. Please join me as I explore the effects of eating "only white meat."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Goodrow from Compassionate Cooks.
0:22.1	I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.
0:30.7	You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our websites, CompassionateCooks.com and Joy of veganbaking.com. Hi everybody. How are you
0:41.3	doing? It's good to be here. I don't know if you know the Yiddish word plots to plots. To plots means to
0:48.2	basically explode. David and I use this word all the time. Like, you know, if something's too cute,
0:54.0	you plots, if something's too cute, you plots, if something's
0:55.6	too overwhelming, you know, like, oh my God, Simon and Schuster were so adorable today. They
1:00.3	were just so cute. It just made me plots, like that kind of thing. So I hope you take this as a compliment,
1:04.9	but all of you make me plots. I have been getting more emails than ever before as word of mouth grows about this podcast and as we
1:13.1	attract more listeners.
1:14.3	And every one of your emails and letters makes me plots because you're just too much.
1:18.8	I'm so impressed and amazed by the response I've been getting.
1:22.7	So seriously, thank you so much for your emails and for taking the time to let me know what this podcast means to you. I'm not just saying this, and I know I've been saying it a lot lately, so you're just going to have to get used to me thanking you, but it's been really a pleasure to hear from all of you. The sponsors of today's episode, Make Me Plots, every time they send me an email. They're just incredible. I've heard from them a couple
1:45.6	times and I had the pleasure of meeting them when they were in town. They came to one of my cooking
1:49.6	classes and they've become the most amazing activist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I'm so impressed
1:55.7	with them. Tanya Smith and Brian Sula, they sponsored the podcast in honor of their two-year wedding anniversary,
2:03.5	which is just so lovely. And here's what Tanya had to say. Thanks, Colleen, for everything you do.
2:09.2	I just wanted to send a note to say how inspiring your podcast has been. My husband and I are
2:14.0	having such an easy time living our vegan life this time around. We are longtime
2:19.0	vegetarians but became vegan in July of 2007. Last time we tried being vegan a couple years ago,
2:25.2	it lasted only six months. Now we are truly experiencing the joy of doing no harm and walking
2:31.6	the walk, living by example, and every other cliche you can think of.
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