The High Costs of Cheap Meat

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2007

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This episode debunks the claim that a "vegan diet is more expensive than a non-vegetarian diet" by looking at a cost comparison of the equivalent amount of animal versus plant protein, by looking at the government subsidies that make food artificially cheap, and by looking at costs that go beyond mere dollars: those of the environment, the lives of the animals, our health, and our peace of mind. I also offer some thoughts about why it's no harder for a person of 75 to change her habits than it is for a person of 20.

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0:00.0	And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau from Compassionate Cooks.
0:22.4	I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed
0:26.2	food choices and to debunk myths about veganism and animal rights. You can learn more about
0:32.4	who we are and what we do by visiting our website
0:35.6	W.w. Compassionate cooks.com. Hi everyone. I'm excited to announce that we've been nominated for a
0:45.1	podcast award in the third annual podcast awards. So I urge you to visit
0:50.4	www. Podcast Awards with an S at the end.W.
0:55.0	with an S at the end, to vote for us. We are in the food and drink category
0:58.0	and it takes like 10 seconds to vote.
1:00.0	You don't have to vote in any of the other categories unless you want to, and you just need to vote. You don't have to vote in any of the other categories unless you want to. And you just
1:04.8	need to submit your email address because they need to verify your vote. You'll get an email,
1:09.7	you click on the link, and boom, you're done. So thank done so much for taking like 10 seconds to vote for us it really
1:16.8	doesn't take long thank you today's sponsor of our podcast is Kimmy Hess Kimmy wrote to me a couple of times and I'm just
1:25.9	so immensely impressed with her honesty and humility, her openness and her
1:31.4	dedication. Her first email to me said the following. I am a meat eater. I chose to listen to
1:38.5	your podcast as I was looking for more interesting vegetable recipes. where better to go than to someone who
1:44.8	exclusively eats them.
1:47.0	At the start of my day, I would never have guessed that I would be writing to an author of
1:51.2	a vegan podcast or supporting it, Nor would I have gandered that I would
1:55.7	have spent my day listening to 20 vegan podcast episodes, but I did. Even more bizarre in my life as I know it was purchasing a book entitled
2:04.8	becoming vegan, but the power of your words have become a catalyst for change in my
2:09.6	life. Tomorrow I start a new day with new choices.
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