And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Udo from Compassionate Cooks. I founded compassionate

cooks 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 our website Compassionate cooks.com as well as any of our other websites

Joy of vegan baking.com for our Joy of vegan baking cookbook. We have a new website called

www. vegan table.com for our upcoming cookbook the vegan table beautiful website by the way

created by a podcast listener named Juliet Lynn thank you so much Juliet so that's

vegan table dot com we also have compassionate cooks community

dot com which is for the message board

and the podcast's own page of course which is vegetarian food for thought

dot com

and a podcast listener recommended recently that I let everyone know that you can follow compassionate cooks on Twitter.

I am not guaranteeing that you're going to get lots of interesting updates and

tweets but I have been urged to join Twitter and a number of people are already

following compassionate cooks. I'm still a little freaked out by it but I'm giving it a go so if you'd like to

go to Twitter.com slash vegan cook to follow me you can do so by going there. So hi everybody I hope this doesn't

seem overkill to mark another milestone since we just celebrated our 100th episode, but it really was just a coincidence that that

episode fell in the same month as our three-year anniversary show.

So if you're done celebrating and you don't want any more of it, then you can just turn off the podcast right now.

But if you'd like to stick around, and I really hope everybody does, because I don't want you to go,

then we're going to have another love fest. We did this for our two-year anniversary show and I think

it will probably be a tradition. Hopefully we'll be able to continue carrying on and we'll continue

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