The Compassionate Bathroom
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2008
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Many companies boast that their personal care and household products are "cruelty-free" and "not tested on animals," a label more and more consumers are seeking. Today's episode addresses the fact that neither the FDA nor the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulate cosmetics/personal care and household products, respectively, require animal testing to ensure the safety of their products. In other words, there is no law that mandates animal testing for cosmetics and household products. Learn about the common animal tests used to test safety, the alternatives that are slowly replacing these tests, and some fabulous companies whose products deserve a place in every compassionate person's bathroom. (This episode is part of our "Compassionate Series," which features favorite companies/organizations/products/experts in the context of the topic. Enjoy!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Edro from Compassionate Cooks. I founded |
| 0:15.0 | compassionate cooks to empower people, to make informed food choices and to debunk myths |
| 0:19.9 | about vegetarianism and animal rights. You can learn more about who we are and |
| 0:23.8 | what we do by visiting our website compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello everybody I'm very excited to be here I just got myself a pot of tea which I realize is a mistake when I'm about to do an episode because I talk the whole time and I don't have time to drink so an entire pot goes cold which is kind of sacrilegious to me. |
| 0:44.7 | So I might have to pause in between and take sips of my tea so I don't waste and waste my tea. |
| 0:50.7 | So I really do hope you're all doing well. |
| 0:52.4 | It's really lovely to be here. I'm very |
| 0:55.1 | excited to announce another way to connect with compassionate cooks and another |
| 0:59.7 | way a new way to join the compassionate cooks community. It's something that several long time |
| 1:05.6 | compassionate cooks fans have been urging me to do for a while and we finally have it up and running. |
| 1:11.6 | Thanks in no small part to my graphics volunteer, |
| 1:15.6 | Danine Aja Kute, as well as my tech savvy husband, |
| 1:20.0 | David, we did not leave the house for four days to get this thing up and running by the beginning of the year. |
| 1:27.2 | So basically we've created a compassionate cooks membership program. It's like a compassionate cooks club and it provides many perks and |
| 1:34.0 | benefits to those who join. Compassionate cooks members receive 10 recipe |
| 1:38.8 | packets right off the bat and that's over 50 recipes right off the bat. |
| 1:42.7 | They receive 10% discount on all compassionate cooks products. |
| 1:45.9 | So when I talk about the cookbooks or the DVD |
| 1:48.8 | or the different CDs, we have the Compassion in Action |
| 1:52.0 | CD or the Podcast Sampler CDs. |
| 1:54.0 | You get 10% off on these all the time as long as you're a member. |
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