Vegan at Work: When Your Job Conflicts with Your Ethics
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Living according to your ethics in a complicated world certainly comes with challenges, but it's not impossible. For vegans trying to do the right thing, it's one thing to opt out of eating the obvious animal products -- meat, dairy, and eggs - but what about the trickier, grayer areas, including work. What if you work for a software company and you're put on a project to build a website for a hunting company? What if you work in a restaurant and have to serve meat? What if you work in a job that requires you to cook meat? These are real scenarios for many people, and the answer isn't to "stop being vegan" because things are complicated. Take a listen to my thoughts in today's episode of Food for Thought.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, the place to explore, celebrate and manifest a life motivated, and defined by unconditional compassion |
| 0:16.2 | and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Colleen Patrick Kudrow, and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.4 | My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. |
| 0:26.0 | You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting Joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:31.0 | You can also visit 30-day vegan challenge.com. Today's topic is vegan ethics at work. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi everybody. Hope you're doing well in this gorgeous August day. I just had to close the windows to record this which is torturous for me |
| 0:47.0 | but I'm really glad to be here and talking to all of you for those who don't know I am now on periscope and for |
| 0:55.0 | those who don't know what periscope is it's a pretty awesome app that enables you to |
| 0:58.8 | do live broadcasts which is pretty awesome I'd heard about it and then I was like, |
| 1:03.8 | are you fine, what is it, tell me about another thing I have to worry about doing or |
| 1:08.0 | not doing. And then I started doing it and checking other people out and |
| 1:11.8 | it's pretty fabulous. |
| 1:13.6 | So I've been doing them about once a week. |
| 1:15.2 | You know, I've also been doing the vegan P.O. V videos, the vegan point of view videos over |
| 1:19.0 | on my YouTube channel once a week. |
| 1:20.9 | So you're going to want to go check that out or maybe not but you might |
| 1:23.4 | want to you go to periscope you just get the app you go to periscope it's free and |
| 1:27.4 | you can find me on periscope if you follow me on Twitter already which you |
| 1:31.5 | should be right you're following me on Twitter it's Joyful vegan on Twitter already which you should be right you're following me on |
| 1:32.9 | Twitter and storyful vegan on Twitter and probably also on periscope but you can just |
| 1:36.6 | type in my name and find me there you will also be alerted Twitter owns periscope |
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