The Vegan Police: How to Speak Up for Animals Without Talking Down to People (REBROADCAST)
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A small subset of opinionated, passionate, well-intentioned people perpetuate the stereotype of the angry, self-righteous, perfection-focused animal rights vegan when they spew invective at anyone who is not "vegan enough" in their eyes. They are otherwise known as The Vegan Police. Listen to today's episode for my perspective on how we can speak up for animals — online and in person — without alienating people who are trying to make compassionate choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate, and |
| 0:04.7 | manifest a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal |
| 0:09.7 | wellness. You know by now that the mission in my work is to empower people to make informed food |
| 0:14.7 | choices, to debunk myths about veganism, to be a voice for animals, and to give people the |
| 0:20.2 | tools and resources they need to live according to their own values of compassion |
| 0:25.4 | and kindness. |
| 0:26.5 | As we enter the 13th year of Food for Thought Podcast, which is an award-winning podcast thanks |
| 0:31.7 | to you at one Veg News magazine's awards again this |
| 0:34.8 | year for Best Podcast. I thought it merited a rebroadcasting of some favorite episodes |
| 0:41.9 | and some episodes that just merit a re-listening. So you can always |
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| 1:17.6 | And just keep in mind that inevitably after all these years some websites I may mention |
| 1:22.1 | on the podcast episodes may be |
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| 1:36.5 | itself is not. And so I give you this podcast episode of the award-winning Food for Thought |
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