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The Joyful Vegan
- How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Egg
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional pressures of being vegan? That’s the hard part.
Motivated by a desire to eat more healthfully or live more ethically, many people choose veganism as a logical and sensible response to their concerns about animals, the environment, and their health. Yet, despite their positive intentions, they’re often met with resistance from friends, family members, and society at large. These external factors can make veganism socially difficult - and emotionally exhausting - to sustain.
This leads to an unfortunate reality: The majority of vegetarians and vegans revert back to consuming meat, dairy, or eggs - breaching their own values and sabotaging their own goals in the process.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, known as the “Joyful Vegan,” has guided countless individuals through the process of becoming vegan. Now, in The Joyful Vegan, she shares her insights into why some people stay vegan and others don’t. Understanding that the food is the easy part of being vegan, Colleen turns her attention to what she believes is the most challenging - dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional aspects: being asked to defend your eating choices, living with the awareness of animal suffering, feeling the pressure (often self-inflicted) to be perfect, and experiencing guilt, remorse, and anger.
In this audiobook, Colleen shares her wisdom for navigating and overcoming these challenges and arms listeners with solutions and strategies for staying confident with family and friends, creating healthy relationships, communicating effectively, sharing enthusiasm without evangelizing, finding like-minded community, and experiencing peace of mind as a vegan in a non-vegan world.
By implementing the tools provided in this book, you will find that you can live ethically, eat healthfully, engage socially - and remain a joyful vegan.
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- Mal
- 2021-08-20
Helpful: You can be even more compassionate
Good for plant curious as well as plant pros. As a vegan since childhood I have always been at odds with humanity, if I could see soul and desire for life in non human animals why couldnt others? This book would have helped my young mind cope and forgive. I was one mad little kid. Now as a dinosaur, I'm always looking for kinder ways to communicate love and empathy to my circle of influence. This book is a great toolkit of compassion, phrasing, awareness and forgiveness. Has wonderful references for further reading learning and exploration of animal advocacy as well.
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- katkav
- 2019-12-11
A gift
Like listening to a trusted friend talk about the beauty and challenges of walking the vegan path.
To be listened to again and again, a gift.
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- Nicola Trentadue
- 2022-09-23
Meh
Although I do not disagree that treating animals like objects for the use of food as painfully upsetting, there needs to be recognition by vegans that plants and trees are in fact alive and arguably conscious. Along the line of thinking like a “vegan” then I suspect plants and trees would not wish for you to exploit their seeds or to exploit their babies for your stomach to enjoy.
Is it possible they do, if so by whose command, by whose design?
“Insects” and “wildlife” are diverted away from their homes and land is stripped to soil in order to plant “vegetables and fruits” of our choosing and our preference and then eat them.
Is it incredibly naïve to assume nothing can ever be harmed or affected to promote survival and that “vegetables” were made for human consumption as superior, smarter, healthier, food choices?
Science and common sense (try it and see how you feel) reveal that a plant based diet can establish good health and less complicated longevity.
Vegans participate in killing, I do not think that is avoidable. I think the real task is to survive harmoniously in the “universe”.
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