Poetry's Plea for Animals
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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🗓️ 7 September 2007
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Several years ago, I happened upon an amazing book called Poetry’s Plea for Animals: An Anthology of Justice and Mercy for our Kindred in Fur and Feathers. It’s a collection of poems about animals and about the plight of animals who are at the mercy of humans. It published in 1927 and contains such chapters as "Burden-Bearers," "In War Service," "The Last and Least of Things," "Braves of the Hunt," "In Captivity," and "Performing Animals." As subjects of these poems, animals are exalted in ways they have yet to witness off the page. These poems serve as touchstones that link us to the early pioneers of the animal protection movement, and they are the inspiration that can keep us moving forward.
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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 found a compassionate cooks to empower people, to make informed |
| 0:25.6 | food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more |
| 0:31.2 | about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:34.0 | W.w. Compassionate cooks.com |
| 0:38.0 | Hi everybody. First of all I want to thank today's sponsor |
| 0:42.0 | Angela Fortez Soto, who lives in New York City. |
| 0:47.4 | This is an email I received from Angela after she sent me her sponsorship contribution. She wrote, I'm getting paid tomorrow and I worked a lot of overtime |
| 0:55.9 | this month so I figured as a treat to myself and to you I would sponsor one of your episodes. This is just |
| 1:02.2 | a way to thank you for being such a caring |
| 1:04.3 | kind person who does not feel above guiding a fledgling vegan on her path. You truly |
| 1:10.4 | demonstrate compassion not only for the non-human animals but also for those people who are trying to find their way and don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. |
| 1:19.0 | I challenge anyone to tell me that as well because with all the volunteer work I do for the |
| 1:23.8 | benefit of other people and sometimes animals I really don't know what anyone |
| 1:28.0 | would complain about. I don't know how common my approach to veganism is I |
| 1:32.0 | really started because I love yoga and when I can |
| 1:35.2 | I take private classes. I love that form of exercise and the whole spiritual basis |
| 1:40.6 | behind it. One of the principles of yoga and Buddhism is to cause no harm. |
| 1:45.0 | Considering how much I love animals, going vegetarian was the next logical step to take. |
| 1:50.0 | And from there, since I like to read anything I can about a subject when I'm interested in it, |
| 1:55.0 | it was a short jump to try veganism. |
| 1:58.0 | When I got my iPod, I got tired of music and I decided to find out what podcasts were and that's when I found you. |
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