And I'm Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks, which I founded 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

compassionate cooks.com.

Let's talk about protein. Where do you get your protein? Where do you get your protein? Where do you get your protein? If I had a nickel for every

time someone asked me where do you get your protein? I would be a very wealthy

vegetarian and so would every vegetarian because it's the most commonly asked question.

The idea that we can't get enough protein on a vegetarian diet is not true, and that's what

we're going to talk about today.

One thing I want to say before we get started. That's what we're going to talk about today.

One thing I want to say before we get started is I applaud people for asking questions about health

and nutrition because we have a lot to learn.

We certainly don't do very well in this arena and we can do a lot better.

So I'm glad people are asking questions about how they can eat better and thrive.

But I want to just get rid of this idea that vegetarians have to worry about this and

non-vegetarians have to worry about that.

This whole dichotomy between vegetarians and non-vegetarians, you know, everybody, human human beings need to make sure they're getting the nutrients

they require not only to be healthy, but to thrive. We can make so many improvements in this

area and I want everybody to ask these questions so

don't wait until you're confronted with vegetarianism just ask this question all the time

is what can I do to improve my diet what improvements can I make so let's just

keep that in mind as we talk about nutrition and health overall so protein

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