Stop Doom-Scrolling and Start Joy-Browsing: Good News for Animals from 2023
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
WARNING: This podcast episode contains only good news! Despite the tragedies of 2023, there were also numerous reasons to celebrate. And I’m here to share some with you, especially as they relate to animals and nature. So, stop doom-scrolling and start joy-browsing as we explore some good-news stories from this past year.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought, the last episode of 2023. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm your host. You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:29.1 | Today's topic is stop doom scrolling and start joy browsing. Not sure if we're going to be able to get that to go viral |
| 0:36.7 | but I'm going to give it a shot good news for animals and nature from 2023 |
| 0:47.2 | this episode as always is brought to you by the listeners of this podcast. That means you if you'd like to keep this podcast going and if you'd like to keep it ad free you can support it by |
| 0:54.9 | becoming a patron we end this year the 17th year of food for thought next year is the 18th year of my writing, producing, and hosting this podcast. If you get anything |
| 1:08.9 | out of it at all, please join my community of supporters. You can go to Joyful Vegan.com. You can find the donate button. |
| 1:16.4 | You can go to Patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Adro. You can click on one of the links in the show notes below and you can choose the level that's right for you and if you're a listener on Apple Podcast you can now become a subscriber there, get bonus materials and early access to episodes. |
| 1:32.0 | Thank you in advance for keeping this |
| 1:34.0 | podcast going for keeping it ad free. I appreciate your support immensely and if you'd |
| 1:39.3 | like to join me on any of our upcoming all-inclusive vegan trips. You can join me in Northern Italy, |
| 1:46.0 | you can join me in Rwanda. These are unforgettable trips of a lifetime, bonding with like-minded folks, a fantastic time you can find all the details at |
| 1:55.8 | joyful vegan.com. |
| 1:57.8 | Hi everyone I hope you're doing well I hope you are having a lovely holiday season and you are creating plans and hopes and dreams |
| 2:08.0 | and desires and goals for the new year. |
| 2:10.9 | I love this time of year for that reason. And I'm here to talk about some good news. If you read or watch mainstream media or even social media, accounts of animal activists even, you would think the world was about to end |
| 2:26.4 | and that there's no reason for hope. |
| 2:28.4 | The media, including print media and TV media |
| 2:31.5 | and online media, YouTube media, social media. media and |
| 2:35.0 | on online media, YouTube media, social media, thrives on sensationalism and focuses on a sense of doom and gloom |
| 2:41.0 | by design. |
| 2:42.0 | And this is the case whether we're talking about crime or the economy or |
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