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

I founded Compassionate Cook cooks to empower people to make

informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.

You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website

compassionate cooks.com.

Before we get started, as you know, I'd like to thank a few people

for their support, for for their membership and acknowledge their

generosity. First I want to send a thank you out to Michael Goldman. He got a

compassionate Cook's club membership in the name of his girlfriend, Chandra Goldfinger, whose

birthday also happens to be coming up, I think it's December 27th.

Michael wrote, Shandra is the most compassionate person I know, and I'm truly lucky to have her in my life.

She's opened my eyes to the suffering of animals and to the moral difficulties of eating

meat in a number of ways, not the least of which has been

introducing me to your podcast. She with your podcast's help have made me far

more aware of the impact of the choices I make and I wanted to thank both of you for that.

You are very welcome Michael.

Thank you for your support and for your openness and for your compassion and thank you to

Chandra and may you have the happiest of

birthdays. Also I'd like to send a thank you to Stephanie Garza who is a

member who wrote Colleen I would like to thank you for your wonderful words of inspiration you give

through your podcast and for all the great resources you make available through compassionate

cooks. The reason I wanted to become a member is because I believe in your mission 100%.

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