Living Among Meat-Eaters - Part I
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2007
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Many a vegetarian has been on the receiving end of jokes, jibes, digs, insensitive quips, and cruel comments, and though it can be hard not to take it personally, the truth is all of these insensitive reactions have nothing to do with you. They reflect a resistance on the part of the non-vegetarian to take an honest and thoughtful look in the mirror held up for them. Though meat-eaters may feel as though they're being judged or made to feel guilty, it's often just a matter of the vegetarian reflecting back his or her own truth and compassion. But vegetarians don't get off the hook that easily. As much as we each have own process and transition to work through as we experience our own awakenings, we have to honor the transition of the people with whom we share our lives. Even though we may feel completely changed, we may forget to look at how our changes are affecting our partner. As much as we want him or her to be understanding and compassionate, we have to provide the same compassion and understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.0 | I founded Compassionate Cook cooks to empower people, to make |
| 0:24.6 | informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:30.0 | I do this through cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, articles and essays, |
| 0:36.6 | this podcast, a new cookbook called The Joy of Vegan Baking and a cooking DVD. |
| 0:42.4 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by |
| 0:45.1 | visiting our website compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:48.6 | Hi everybody how are you doing? I periodically look at my iTunes page and I'm just amazed by all of your accolades and recommendations |
| 0:58.4 | for people to listen. Thank you so much for helping to spread the word. Incidentally if you search for vegan on iTunes |
| 1:05.6 | in their podcast directory and sort by popularity. Our podcast, Vegetarian Food for |
| 1:10.6 | Thought, comes up as the number one podcast that's really exciting stuff. |
| 1:14.4 | I just want to get the message out to as many people as possible so I'm just |
| 1:18.2 | glad that you're able to help spread the word. You can further help by |
| 1:22.3 | linking to compassionate cooks.com from your blogs, |
| 1:25.6 | from your my space pages, from your websites, and of course by subscribing. It's one thing to just |
| 1:30.6 | download each episode as they come in and it's quite another |
| 1:33.2 | to subscribe subscriptions are what iTunes and other podcatchers use to |
| 1:37.7 | determine the popularity of a podcast and as they see subscriptions grow |
| 1:41.7 | steadily for a particular podcast, it increases the chances that they'll feature us. |
| 1:46.0 | So I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, which you can do through iTunes or any other podcatcher |
| 1:52.0 | if you went to CompassionateCooks.com and |
| 1:54.3 | clicked on listen to our podcast it'll bring you to a page that lists all of our |
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