Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate, and manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness.

My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host.

Don't forget there's the spin-off

podcast called Animology which you can also listen to and catch up and in the

meantime while I'm working on the book and new episodes just for you.

Please enjoy the rebroadcast of this podcast episode. Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't receive an email from one of you telling me how this podcast is inspiring you or helping you which basically

means there isn't a day that goes by that I'm not incredibly grateful and moved and

humbled by your honesty and authenticity and openness and humility.

Thank you for giving me a tremendous amount of hope.

It is such a gift.

Your sponsorships are also gifts for which I am very grateful. I wish I could do this

podcast every day and with your support with your help this this might be possible

someday. I want to dedicate another episode to animals.

This time I want to talk about pigs, how wonderful they are, how we misrepresent them in our society,

and what effect that has on our treatment of them.

pigs get a pretty bad rap in our society and are exploited and used by humans in a variety of ways as research tools as food animals in high school

science classes where pig fetuses are used for dissection as entertainment in

something called hog baiting or hog-dogging. It's a blood sport where by a pig or a boar is baited and then mauled by a dog. Bloodsport. That's for fun. As the quarry in hunts that take place for

sport for fun or to fulfill some kind of personal quest as in the case of

Michael Pollan who writes about killing a sow in his book because he had, quote, gotten it into my head that I wanted to prepare a meal I had hunted, gathered, and grown myself.

Why?

To see if I could do it.

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