Marks of Domination: The Branding of Human and Animal Slaves
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2007
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The practice of branding animals and humans has a long history, dating back 4,000 years to the Egyptians. The Greeks, Romans, and Anglo-Saxons carried on the tradition, it was a regular form of punishment and identification during the European/American slave trade, and it continues to this day on ranches all over the American West. Brands cruelly and successfully denote ownership and domination, and we examine their presence in animal and human slavery in today's episode, ending with a poem by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), son of former slaves, who understood "why the caged bird sings."
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Kedro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:22.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people, to make informed |
| 0:26.2 | food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more |
| 0:31.4 | about who we are and what we do by visiting our |
| 0:34.6 | websites compassionate cooks.com or joy of vegan baking.com. First I just want to |
| 0:41.4 | make a quick announcement. The cookbook has already gone through several |
| 0:45.6 | printings so far. So thanks to all of you who are supporting the book by buying it. The cookbook is |
| 0:51.8 | the joy of vegan baking. I've received a number of requests |
| 0:55.2 | from people who want signed or personalized copies of the cookbook. So I just want to let |
| 1:00.3 | you know that I'm now offering this as an option. I wasn't going to do any kind of |
| 1:04.1 | fulfillment but with the help of some really good friends it's something that I can do after all. |
| 1:09.1 | So if you'd like to order a signed copy of the cookbook or a personalized copy of the cookbook directly |
| 1:15.0 | through me, you can do so by visiting the website Compassionate cooks.com and just following the |
| 1:20.1 | links that direct you to do so. So thank you again for your interest and for your support. |
| 1:27.2 | Before we get started on the topic, I just want to send out a heartfelt thank you to today's |
| 1:32.3 | sponsor Charles Tsai, who I had the pleasure of hearing |
| 1:36.3 | from back in August of 2006 when he first wrote to tell me about his essay project he launched through his Canada, his Vancouver-based |
| 1:46.3 | charity called Global Youth Fund, which, quote, provides young people with training and support |
| 1:52.2 | to become effective leaders in a pluralistic |
| 1:54.8 | world. |
| 1:55.8 | The essay project is really fantastic and I encourage you to check it out. |
| 2:00.6 | They invite young people ages 13 to 25 from all around the world to submit short essays about their personal philosophies and the core values and beliefs that guide them day to day. |
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