Vegan Outreach to Restaurants
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2011
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Manifesting your values of compassion and wellness in your everyday behavior (i.e. becoming vegan) is a profound and powerful way to live. It's quite literally life-changing, and for some people, just making this change is enough to be part of contributing to a compassionate and nonviolent world But you may want to do even more. So today, I talk about an easy and effective form of advocacy that has countless ripple effects: reaching out to restaurants to encourage them to offer more vegan options or to at least acknowledge on their menus vegan dishes they already have or non-vegan dishes that can be easily veganized.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm an author and |
| 0:19.4 | educator dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking myths |
| 0:24.5 | about veganism and animal rights, and to giving people the tools and resources they |
| 0:29.0 | need to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness. You can learn more about what I do at |
| 0:35.5 | my website, Colleen Patrick Goodro.com. And yes I will talk about the change in that website address. |
| 0:42.2 | I also encourage listeners to check out my newest |
| 0:44.9 | book, Vegan's Daily Companion, 365 days of living compassionately and healthfully at |
| 0:50.8 | vegans daily companion.com and I'm so incredibly touched I'm so incredibly |
| 0:56.2 | thrilled by the response to this book I am so this book means so much to me it's a very |
| 1:01.0 | special book for me and and it I'm just so thrilled with the response. |
| 1:05.6 | Some people have told me that it gives them the inspiration they need to live confidently and |
| 1:10.2 | joyfully as a vegan. Some tell me it's what pushed them over the edge to becoming |
| 1:14.8 | vegan. And some tell me they really appreciate having a book that articulates the joy of |
| 1:20.3 | being vegan so that they can give it to their non-vegan friends and family |
| 1:23.5 | members who wonder what this vegan thing is all about. So it just makes my |
| 1:26.9 | heart go a flutter and I really appreciate it. Thank you to all of you who |
| 1:29.7 | have purchased the book and are spreading the word about the book and please do leave a review on |
| 1:33.7 | Amazon and anywhere else that makes sense. |
| 1:36.4 | Hi everyone, it's so great to be with you today. |
| 1:39.4 | I realize just recently that this is the first time in five years that I'm not actually |
| 1:44.8 | writing a book. It's a very strange feeling. It's a good feeling and I have many |
| 1:50.0 | more books in my head I mean even really starting to write the proposal for |
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