And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded 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

CompassionateCokes.com.

Hi everybody I hope you're all doing very well. Thank you as always for your amazing letters and emails and support. Today we have two

sponsors, the first of whom asked me to use Cheryl Cat Mom in Vermont as her name. She sponsored the podcast and wrote a lovely email.

She wrote, Dear Colleen, I started listening to your podcast in the last couple of months.

I am now catching up on many missed episodes.

Of course I want to support your podcast and your life affirming work.

That's the big reason I sponsored. The smaller reason, the one that all by itself

would have made me a supporter,

is your better than tuna salad recipe that I heard on an episode.

I am now officially addicted to food processed beans mixed with vegan meow and relish. I have eaten it every

day since I heard the podcast and I don't even want to say how many days that is. I also

want you to know how much I appreciate your incorporation of literature and cultural history into your show that really holds my attention.

You might be interested to know that when I was an undergrad English major in the mid-1980s,

I took a short story writing class co-taught by Isaac Bachevest singer.

At the time I was asleep to most animal issues, though I and my family of origin always adopted

homeless animals.

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