Peace for Pigs

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2007

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is dedicated to pigs - how wonderful they are, how we misrepresent them in our society, and what affect that has on our treatment of them. Pigs are exploited and used by humans in a variety of ways: as research tools, as "food animals," in high school science classes, as entertainment in a blood sport called "hog-baiting" or "hog dogging," as victims of hunting. We also talk about how our language shapes our perception of them and, thus, our treatment of them, and we examine the cycle of violence inherent in hiring men to work in slaughterhouses, desensitizing them to violence, and then essentially supporting abusive and sadistic behavior - just because we like bacon. The cycle of violence makes its final stop in the homes of these slaughterhouse workers, where alcoholism and domestic abuse is commonplace. Finally, we end on a positive note with a beautiful poem by Pulitzer-prize winning poet, Galway Kinnell - who pays homage to our porcine friends in "St Francis and the Sow."

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0:00.0	And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Udo from Compassionate Cooks. I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed
0:26.3	food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more
0:31.7	about who we are and what we do by visiting our website
0:35.2	compassionate cooks.com.
0:38.8	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
0:44.7	you or helping you, which basically means there isn't a day that goes by that I'm not
0:49.5	incredibly grateful and moved and humbled by your honesty and authenticity and openness and
0:55.6	humility. Thank you for giving me a tremendous amount of hope. It is such a gift.
1:01.4	Your sponsorships are also gifts for which I am very grateful.
1:06.0	I wish I could do this podcast every day and include a way to have you know a call in
1:11.2	segment to hear your questions and be able to answer
1:14.8	them I think there's a lot of different directions we can go with this podcast and
1:18.6	with your support with your help this this might be possible someday. There are two generous
1:24.4	sponsors for today's episode. One is Peter Walker who contributed in honor of
1:29.0	his wife, Mariana Yaksit. I hope you're well Mariana. Our other generous sponsor is Brian Schomades who along with
1:37.4	his partner Michael Kalmer dedicated his contribution to his sister-in-law
1:41.3	Meredith Larson of Grand Forks, North Dakota, who was, quote,
1:46.5	so inspired by family members and the Food for Thought Podcast that she has become vegetarian. May you and everyone listening reap the many physical and
1:56.4	intangible benefits of this lifestyle. Thank you again Brian, Michael, and Peter.
2:02.1	I'm very grateful for your support. If you would like to help
2:05.8	me keep this podcast going and expand it, you can visit www. Compassionate cooks.com and click on support our podcast.
2:14.8	I do encourage you to read some of the comments.
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