The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2008
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Best known for his novels, such as The Picture of Dorian Gray; his plays, such as "The Importance of Being Earnest," "An Ideal Husband," and "Salome"; his poetry, such as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and his 50,000-word letter, called "De Profundis," Oscar Wilde is not widely acclaimed for his children's stories. Sweet, didactic, and full of imagery, his children's stories were compiled in The Happy Prince and Other Talesand published in 1888. He created them as bedtime stories for his two sons, and though they do not reflect the wit and acumen of the brilliant writer, they do reflect his desire to teach the value of having a selfless heart. "The Happy Prince" is a lovely little story about selfless prince and a selfless bird: a little swallow who sacrifices himself to save others.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. I founded compassionate cooks to |
| 0:23.9 | empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about |
| 0:28.5 | vegetarianism and animal rights. I do this through cooking classes, articles and essays, workshops and |
| 0:35.9 | lectures, a cooking DVD, and a cookbook, an award-winning cookbook called The Joy of |
| 0:42.1 | Vegan Baking. You can learn more about who we are |
| 0:45.4 | and what we do by visiting compassionate cooks.com or Joy of vegan baking.com. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome everyone. It's wonderful to be here with you today. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you all for listening and for subscribing to the podcast and for supporting it as well. |
| 1:02.0 | The person who sponsored today's... and for supporting it as well. |
| 1:03.0 | The person who sponsored today's podcast did so on behalf of someone she called a super heroine, |
| 1:09.0 | Scarlet Jong, who runs BeijingCat.org. |
| 1:13.0 | I love the description of what they do. |
| 1:15.0 | BeijingCat.org is a place where homeless cats can adopt |
| 1:20.0 | homeful humans. |
| 1:22.0 | According to the friend who sponsored the podcast in Scarlet's name, Scarlet rescues and |
| 1:28.0 | shelters numerous cats and takes care of a feral colony of about 30 cats as well. |
| 1:34.0 | She's a one woman SPCA and has rehomed hundreds of cats so far. |
| 1:40.0 | That's incredible. |
| 1:41.0 | Thank you so much, Scarlet, for all you're doing. |
| 1:44.0 | People who do hands-on work with animals and rescues |
| 1:47.4 | just deserve so many accolades. |
| 1:50.2 | I know they're not doing it for the accolades, |
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