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My name is Colleen Patrick Godro. I'm your host. You can find me at joyful vegan.com, you can find me on

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com slash Colleen Patrick Godro. Thank you so much in advance and thank you to all of my

supporters. First of all, hi everybody. As I write this the Amazon Rainforest is burning up and major media are reporting that the main culprit

is the destruction of the rainforest for growing feed for cattle. So farmers pushing up against the forest, burning the

forest to grow feed for cattle, which of course is then the cattle are killed for

human consumption. Of course this is exacerbated by drought conditions and it's not good and I know it is so hard

to deal with this and feel helpless

watching this happen and feeling like we can't do anything.

I feel the same way.

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indefinitely, because I know so many people are motivated to do something different, to reduce their

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