Man’s Place in the Animal World by Mark Twain

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 30 October 2009

⏱️ 42 minutes

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An outspoken advocate for animals, Mark Twain publicly came out against such abuses as bullfighting and vivisection, and animals were a part of his writing from the first story that earned him renown ("The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County") to the published and unpublished pieces he wrote up until his death in 1910. In addition to his short story, "A Dog's Tale," read back in July 2009, I've taken great delight in Twain's essays, letters, and other short stories also dedicated to animals and his conclusion that they are superior to humans - evidenced in today's essay: The essay I’m going to read, “Man’s Place in the Animal World” is similar in content to “Letters from a Dog to Another Dog Explaining and Accounting for Man, though it is decidedly lighter in tone, as evident by the full title: “Letters from a Dog to Another Dog Explaining and Accounting for Man by Author, Newfoundland Smith. Translated from the Original Doggerel by M.T.”

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0:00.0	And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.
0:21.0	I founded Compassionate compassionate cooks to empower people to
0:24.4	make informed food choices and to debunk myths about veganism and animal rights. I do this
0:30.3	in a number of ways through cooking classes through articles and essays
0:34.2	workshops and lectures I have a cooking DVD CD we put out pretty recently and I
0:41.1	have my cookbooks the Joy of of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table and of course this
0:46.0	podcast.
0:47.0	You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website compassionate cooks.com.
0:54.4	Hello everybody. It's nice to be here.
0:57.8	And I hope you're all doing well.
1:00.6	Today's podcast sponsor is actually a gift sponsorship from Justin Mora on behalf of
1:07.8	his wife Beatrice for her birthday. Justin gave Beatrice a compassionate cook's membership and in doing so he
1:16.2	sponsored this podcast and he did so on behalf of Beatrice. So I'll let him explain in
1:21.5	his own words because the email he wrote is quite lovely.
1:26.8	So Justin wrote, I would like to dedicate this podcast to my lovely wife Beatrice for her birthday and for being the most wonderful
1:35.2	beautiful compassionate and joyful vegan I have ever met. She is the one who opened
1:40.6	my eyes to this new world of healthful and compassionate living and has been a passionate
1:46.0	activist for animal rights. Once we found out how the animals were being treated, we could no longer
1:51.4	be part of the senseless torture and killing of animals
1:54.4	and ever since we have stopped consuming animal products we've never been more healthy
1:59.0	or happy in our lives. This newfound freedom of not having the weight of the pain and suffering and blood on my
2:07.0	hands has inspired us to become more active in drawing attention to our senseless slaughter of billions of innocent and beautiful lives
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