It Would Be So Much Easier to Not Care (But Here's Why I Still Do)

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this end-of-year episode, I reflect on how much easier it would be to not care — to choose convenience over compassion, to get what we want when we want it without having to think about the effects of our choices. I also share why I continue to make the choices I do, 24 years later.

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome to Food for Thought.
0:16.4	My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I am your host.
0:19.0	You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com.
0:24.6	And if you are interested in traveling with me in any of our upcoming all-inclusive vegan
0:29.6	trips, you can join me in Northern Italy and in Rwanda for unforgettable trips of a lifetime in 2024.
0:37.0	Details are at joyful vegan.com.
0:40.0	Today's episode is it would be so much easier to not care.
0:45.0	This episode of Food for Thought is brought to you by the listeners of this podcast
0:48.9	and that means you, you can keep this podcast going and you can keep it ad free by becoming a patron.
0:54.6	You can just go to JoyfulVican.com slash donate or you can see the donate button there or go to
0:59.0	Patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Godro or click on the links in the show notes and choose the level
1:05.0	that's right for you and if you're a listener on Apple Podcast you can now become a
1:09.2	subscriber there and enjoy bonus material bonus episodes and early access to episodes. Thank you in
1:15.9	advance for keeping food for thought going. We're moving on to our 18th year of
1:21.5	this podcast and I appreciate your support.
1:24.3	Hi everyone I just returned home from our joyful vegan trip to Alsas
1:28.7	where we had an incredibly magical time. This is a trip that is revolved around the Christmas markets.
1:34.8	Christmas markets are unique to Germany. Well, they originated in Germany. They're unique to that region.
1:40.6	Of course, you see Christmas markets now all around the world but
1:43.4	Alsas being a unique part of France because it was back and forth between France
1:49.8	and Germany for so many years it has a real stamp of German culture, German food,
1:56.2	and German traditions like Christmas markets. And so we revolve this trip around the Christmas
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