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

My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness.

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Today's topic is processed foods are evil or are they?

This is a long version of a seven minute vegan point of view video I made and released very recently and if you'd like to watch that you can do so at Joyful vegan or my YouTube channel.

But today we're going to go into greater detail about quote unquote processed foods.

First of all, thank you to all of our listener sponsors, to all of you who are sponsoring

this podcast, including New Gold Patron, Genevieve Okama.

Thank you also to our sponsor the American Anti Vivisection Society at aavs.org.

Along with other animal protection organizations,

AavS is mobilizing to provide emergency funding

for the care of 66 chimpanzees who were abandoned by the New York Blood Center.

I don't know if you've heard about this. There was a story in the New York Times.

The New York Blood Center set up a lab in Liberia in the 1970s,

so it would have easy access to chimpanzees to use in experiments to study hepatitis and HIV.

The chimpanzees have been retired for at least a decade, and in the past, the New York Blood Center has acknowledged its responsibility

to financially support these animals including in retirement.

However, as of March 6, 2015, it has

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