The Vegan Police: Speaking Up for Animals without Talking Down to People
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2015
⏱️ 28 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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| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and Manifest A Life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.3 | My name is Colleen Patrick Edro and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm the author of several books on living Healthfully and Compassionately, and you can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website Joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:30.0 | You can also check out 30-day vegan challenge.com, where you can sign up for the online program |
| 0:35.1 | and get a copy of the 30-day vegan challenge signed the book for a discount. |
| 0:41.8 | Today's episode is The vegan police speaking up for animals |
| 0:46.0 | without talking down to people. But first I'd like to welcome you all to the show |
| 0:51.0 | and thank you for your support and kind words. |
| 0:53.7 | I have so many beautiful emails from all of you and I've been looking at comments |
| 0:57.4 | over at iTunes as well which is really helpful you know in all of these cases |
| 1:01.2 | the show in this case the podcast is ranked higher when we get |
| 1:05.9 | ratings and reviews so I do take a look over at iTunes from time to time but more |
| 1:11.0 | importantly other people are looking at iTunes to see if they |
| 1:13.7 | want to listen to the show. |
| 1:15.2 | So definitely leave a review and leave a rating. |
| 1:19.5 | There's a lovely woman who is named Grateful Veg lady on iTunes who wrote |
| 1:24.8 | Colleen's podcast was the first I came upon years ago when I made the leap |
| 1:28.3 | into plant-based eating and listening to her wise words and helpful advice |
| 1:32.4 | felt like she was holding my hand as I navigated this unfamiliar terrain. |
| 1:36.5 | I highly recommend her many beautiful books and this informative podcast to veteran vegans and newbies alike. |
| 1:42.0 | This is the perfect, perfect, most beautiful, little succinct quote. |
| 1:45.5 | Thank you so much, grateful veg lady, |
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