Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Udo from Compassionate Cooks. I founded compassionate cooks to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk

myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.

You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website CompassionateCooks.

And you can connect with other listeners by joining our message board at

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Before we get started on the topic of today's episode, I'd like to thank our listener sponsors.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank Cindy Rook in Arizona here in the United States.

Cindy's email was short and sweet saying that it was quite sincerely, quote, quite

sincerely my pleasure to assist compassionate cooks in this small way."

It may be small to Cindy, but it's huge to compassionate cooks.

So thank you very, very much, Cindy, for your very generous sponsorship.

Our second sponsor is Jozelle Palacios.

I hope I pronounced your name correctly, Jozelle.

And Jozelle has a wonderful story

about becoming vegetarian, and I encourage you to check it out you can read

it on our joyful vegan stories of transformation blog which you can get to through our

website compassionate cooks.com when she became a, Jozelle wrote the following. She wrote, I am

sponsoring an episode in honor of my boyfriend Brian Kantarack, a

compassionate, loving, gentle, supportive, fun, and all-around amazing person who also happens

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