And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make

informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. I do this through

cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, articles and essays, this

podcast, and a cooking DVD.

My first cookbook, whose working title is The Joy of Baking, is scheduled for a fall 2007 release.

So I encourage you to sign up for our newsletter if you want to be kept informed about our various

activities.

You can subscribe to the newsletter newsletter as well as learn more about

who we are and what we do by visiting our website compassionate cooks.com.

Once again in this past week I've received some amazing emails from many of you.

It means so much to me that you take the time to write to me to tell me what these podcasts mean to you.

I have to set up one of those phone lines that

other fancy-shmancy podcasters have so you can hear for yourself what kind of

response I'm getting. Anyway I so appreciate your emails and your support.

I don't know if you know this, but each episode takes hours to do, hours to write and

edit, record and edit, and prepare for uploading.

So if you like what you hear, I would greatly appreciate your support.

You can visit our website, CompassionateCokes.com, and click on the button at the bottom of the

home page that says support podcast.

This helps with the inherent production costs and enables me to keep doing them.

You can contribute any amount you like and I've added some benefits to thank you for your sponsorship. You can even sponsor a

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