Vegan Dating
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2013
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Finding a compatible romantic partner is an age-old desire and one that comes with challenges, hopes, fears, and heartbreak - regardless of who you are, where you live, or how you eat. For vegans who want to date only vegans (i.e. like-minded folks who share similar values - something we all went!), the dilemma is the fact that because vegans represent a small segment of the general population (for now!), it narrows our choices somewhat. By the time you weed out potential partners based on age, location, gender, compatibility, etc., you're swimming alone in a pretty small pool. The obvious solution is to broaden our options by dating non-vegans, which comes with its own set of issues. Join me as I share my own experience dating an animal-eater and why it was his character - not his behavior - that drew me to him (and that eventually compelled him to become vegan). I also offer some resources on meeting like-minded folks and on how to best use non-vegan dating websites.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm an author and educator dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking |
| 0:26.5 | myths about veganism, to being a voice for animals, and to giving people the tools and resources |
| 0:32.4 | they need to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan, Vegan Me Vegan's daily companion, and the 30-day vegan challenge. |
| 0:45.9 | And also a new book of mine is coming out |
| 0:48.0 | called On Being Vegan. |
| 0:49.6 | You can find out about that and everything else |
| 0:51.5 | at my website, Compassionate Cook.com. |
| 0:55.0 | I also encourage you to check out the 30-day vegan challenge at 30-day vegan challenge |
| 0:58.8 | dot com to participate or to buy a gift subscription for someone you love. And you can also find me on |
| 1:05.2 | Twitter and Facebook through which I share lots of inspirational, hopefully, |
| 1:10.7 | quotes and blurbs that people can easily retweet or share with family and friends on |
| 1:15.2 | Facebook so follow me at Twitter at Twitter.com Patrick Goodro what is it Twitter |
| 1:20.0 | com slash Patrick goodro something like that and on Facebook Facebook dot com slash Patrick Godreau something like that and on Facebook |
| 1:23.1 | Facebook dot com slash compassionate cooks of course before I get started with |
| 1:28.6 | today's episode first and foremost I would like to thank my wonderful platinum members James Killen of |
| 1:34.7 | incentive personal training in Australia. I have two Australian platinum |
| 1:39.9 | members now that I think about it. James is at personal dash training.com. |
| 1:44.1 | Thank you James. Anonymous in Norway you know who you are thank you. Grace |
| 1:50.4 | Rodriguez Tim Anderson David Cabrera and Alexander Gray, Alexander Gray Associates, |
| 1:58.0 | which you can find out more about at Alexander Gray.com, Peter and Eric of Peace Food Cafe in New York City. |
| 2:05.0 | That's Peace Food Cafe.com. |
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