Response to: Why don't you spend your time on people instead of animals? or Why don't you care about humans?
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2007
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Anyone who has ever acted or spoken on behalf of animals has learned that criticism will often follow. Sometimes, it's in the form of a provocation such as: "Why aren’t you helping people instead of wasting your time on animals?" Though it's formed as a question, the inquisitors are not really interested in the answer. I suppose they think they’re catching animal activists in some sort of trap that's supposed to prove that animal activists care more about nonhuman animals than their "fellow humans." The disgust with which they ask it makes it seem as though this may be the worst thing you could accuse someone of. Join me as I address this accusation and lament that some people think so little of their "fellow humans" as to presume our hearts aren't big enough to care about more than one thing at a time. I also read a brilliant and eloquent essay by Nobel prize winner J.M. Coetzee to illustrate why "the animal rights campaign remains a human project from beginning to end."
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Goudreau from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:22.2 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people. Guid |
| 0:23.0 | good for compassionate cooks to empower people |
| 0:25.0 | to make informed food choices |
| 0:27.0 | and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:31.0 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:35.0 | www. |
| 0:36.8 | Compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:41.0 | First of all, I've received some compliments from people about the podcast theme |
| 0:46.1 | music and I realize I feel terrible, I never acknowledged the musicians all this time and I think |
| 0:51.9 | we're coming up to about a year doing these |
| 0:54.1 | podcasts which is really exciting. My husband and his band actually created the |
| 0:58.6 | music and if you have our cooking DVD you'll recognize that theme. |
| 1:03.4 | It's the music and the opening and closing credits. |
| 1:06.0 | So they were going to create a new theme for the podcast, |
| 1:09.3 | but I really liked that tempo, and I thought it worked really well here so I used it so thank you to my |
| 1:15.5 | husband and to his bandmates they're still working on a name so I can't just give |
| 1:19.9 | you a name but they're working on several I don't like the newest once I'm not even going to give you that name |
| 1:25.4 | Anyway, that's who did the music and thank you for those who who sent me kind words about it |
| 1:30.7 | It at the risk of sounding redundant. I have to thank you again for your |
| 1:34.2 | beautiful letters. I feel so honored to do this work and to be the recipient of |
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