Like Animals
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2007
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Perhaps the most offensive thing you can say about people - if you really want it to sting - is that they're "like animals." We use, abuse, exploit, denigrate animals and relegate them to the lowliest place in society and then blame them for being "animals." We compare them to humans and consider them lowly and forget that we're the ones writing that story. If we're the barometer against which we measure everyone else in the natural world, well surely they'll always fall short. But what if our criteria were different? What if value and worthiness were determined by how fast you could run. Or how high you could fly. Or on the ability to climb mountains without rope but only four hooves. How would humans fare then?
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. This is Colleen Patrick Udo with compassionate cooks. |
| 0:21.8 | I founded compassionate cooks to |
| 0:23.5 | empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths |
| 0:27.5 | about vegetarianism and animal rights. I do this through cooking classes, |
| 0:31.8 | an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, |
| 0:35.0 | articles and essays, this podcast, a cooking DVD and a new cookbook called The Joy of |
| 0:40.6 | Vegan baking, which is already up on Amazon you can pre-order it it will be |
| 0:44.5 | released in October you can learn more about who we are and what we do by |
| 0:48.6 | visiting our website www dot Cooks.com. |
| 0:53.9 | Hi everybody, apparently Simon, my cat, |
| 0:56.0 | one of my cats would like to be part of today's episode. |
| 0:59.4 | So he's sitting on my lap and you may hear from him during this episode. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi everybody, I hope you're doing well. |
| 1:08.2 | It's nice to be here. |
| 1:10.2 | I'd like to thank today's sponsor first and foremost. |
| 1:13.0 | Today's sponsor is Faith Maloney, |
| 1:15.0 | Hi Faith, who wrote to me from Utah a few months back. |
| 1:18.4 | Faith especially appreciated the episode called Don't Buy a Cow and is equally disheartened as I am by the number of celebrities and individuals who've hopped on the Heffer Project bandwagon. |
| 1:31.0 | It's the podcast faith has been involved in animal advocacy for many years and I thank you |
| 1:44.9 | faith for everything that you do. If you'd like to send me an email you can do so at |
| 1:49.5 | podcast at Compassionate cooks.com and if you'd like to sponsor this |
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