Rites and Wrongs: When Slaughter Rituals Mask Discomfort
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
For millennia, humans have engaged in rituals with the intention of achieving a wide variety of desired outcomes: reducing anxiety, alleviating grief, deepening faith, or even making it rain. Though rites and rituals can be used for positive or innocuous effects, they can also disguise discomfort and make unjustifiable actions seem legitimate. They can be meaningless, arbitrary, and archaic. They can also mask cruelty to animals by being shrouded in religious sanctity. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion. and |
| 0:25.0 | manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:26.0 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:29.0 | You can learn more about who I am and what I do |
| 0:32.0 | by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:35.7 | Today's topic is rights and wrongs when rituals mask cruelty. |
| 0:40.6 | For millennia humans have engaged in rituals with the intention of achieving a wide variety of desired outcomes, reducing anxiety, alleviating grief, deepening faith, or even making it rain, though rights and rituals can be used for positive or innocuous |
| 0:55.3 | effects, they can also disguise discomfort and make unjustifiable actions seem |
| 1:00.4 | legitimate. They can be meaningless, arbitrary, and archaic. They can also mass |
| 1:05.7 | cruelty to animals by being shrouded in religious sanctity. And that's what we're going to |
| 1:10.8 | talk about today. |
| 1:12.8 | But first, I'd like to welcome you all to the show |
| 1:15.4 | and thank you for your response |
| 1:16.9 | to the last episode about mainstreaming |
| 1:19.5 | the 30-day vegan challenge. |
| 1:21.4 | The list of 10 things that I mentioned in that podcast episode |
| 1:24.4 | that you could do to mainstream the 30-day vegan challenge is now on joyful |
| 1:28.6 | vegan.com as a blog post and I know a number of you have been using it as a checklist, just checking off each of the things, and it's just incredible. |
| 1:37.0 | You have been responding so beautifully that at this writing there are 60 five-star reviews of the book on Amazon and you can see |
| 1:47.5 | lots of blog reviews on the press and reviews page under about at joyful vegan.com and some of you have reached out and are helping |
| 1:57.4 | me line up talks. The toughest contacts of which to get to find are for universities. So definitely let me know if you have any |
| 2:05.6 | contacts for universities. But I've lined up a few more appearances between the last |
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