Colleen Patrick-Goudreau shows how to make her favorite Blueberry Smoothie. You may modify it to your heart’s content – short of adding animal products, of course! Enjoy!   All Compassionate Cooks Club members can enjoy this video. Because it’s private, you need the password to watch it. Enjoy, and...

I imagine by now you’ve heard about the work I’m doing in Oakland to stop the city from making it legal to farm and kill animals in the backyard. This is a very hot, trendy, hip issue right now, which is disturbing in its own right that something so...

A recent letter from a podcast listener reminded me of the workshops I led many years ago when I was a youth group leader at a Unitarian Universalist church. I don’t know how much I’ve talked about my early days as an animal activist, but really the foundation of...

For years, I’ve been watching the development of the “boutique slaughter” trend in cities across the country, carried out and advocated by people I called “slaughter hobbyists.” They are not solving any social or economic problem; rather they are fighting to kill animals simply because they think it’s their...