We Are Not a Single Movement: In-Fighting in the Vegan, Plant-Based, and Animal Advocacy Communities
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Being part of a supportive community of people who share the same joys and heartaches, victories and challenges, pleasures and concerns is critical to staying vegan – and to staying a joyful vegan. But what happens when there are divisions within the community that shares a commonality?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, giving you the tools and resources you need to live according |
| 0:21.3 | to your own values of compassion and wellness, joyfully, healthfully, deliciously and sustainably. |
| 0:29.5 | Today's episode is, we are not a single movement, plant-based radicals and vegan extremists. |
| 0:37.0 | Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick-Gudrow, you can find me at joyfulvegan.com. |
| 0:43.5 | This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you, so thank you for subscribing, |
| 0:49.2 | for supporting, and for listening. |
| 0:51.4 | You can join other supporters by going to patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick-Gudrow. |
| 0:56.3 | It's a 100% listener podcast and it always has been. |
| 1:01.5 | Thanks everyone for being here, I hope you're doing well, I'm really excited to get into this topic with you today. |
| 1:07.8 | It's been swirling around in my head for a very long time and it was good to organize it all and now share it with you. |
| 1:15.5 | If you are listening for the first time, some of this may be new to you and welcome. |
| 1:21.3 | If you're a regular listener and someone who's been following me for a while listening to this podcast, reading my book, |
| 1:27.9 | some of it will be familiar, but some of it will be new. |
| 1:31.6 | And while I've written and talked about factionalism and fundamentalism and tribalism and perfectionism among vegans and animal advocates in the past, |
| 1:43.9 | this particular topic, we are not a single movement, while related to those related to tribalism and perfectionism. |
| 1:52.5 | It's a relatively new idea, I debuted it, if you will, during my online Joyful Vegan Conference in 2020, |
| 2:00.2 | and I've hinted at it in various interviews from the past couple years, but after chewing on it for a while, |
| 2:07.6 | it was time to just put it out there in a podcast episode and see if it resonates with you. |
| 2:13.3 | So I've been an animal advocate, I've been vegan, and I've been a vegan educator for decades. |
| 2:19.6 | And being such, I've lived among, circulated among, sought out, interacted with, worked beside other advocates, |
| 2:29.6 | and other vegans in what is generally called the movement, the vegan movement, the animal rights movement, |
| 2:36.2 | the animal movement, the vegan community, right? |
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