We travel to Lebanon to meet an amazing animal rights activist who is harnessing the power of social media to spread the vegan message across the Arab world. Her name is Maya Kawas, she is a Muay Thai fighter and a journalist with over 300K followers on Instagram.

We discussed her most recent viral video and the crazy reactions it got from across the Middle East. The gender dynamics in Arab cultures. The Beginning of her vegan journey when her friend was sacrificed for a religious holiday. And much more.

Maya's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maya_kawas/

Maya's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mayaxkawas

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Rakefet Cohen Ben-Are, research manager at the China Vegan Society, delves into three key tactics of effective advocacy: the concept of vegan default, the identifiable victim effect and making plant-based shopping more convenient.

China Vegan Society: https://www.chinavegans.org/

China Vegan Society’s report: https://rakefet.life/ChinaVeganSocietyReport2025

Identified victim effect: https://rakefet.life/IdentifiedVictim

Vegan defaults: https://rakefet.life/DefaultChinaVeganSummit

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Today, we lift the veil on a world of lies, confusion, spying, corruption and hypocrisy. We expose the Meat Dairy and Egg social media war strategy unleashed against vegans. A real conspiracy of PR Firms, scientists, health experts, environmental organizations and more.

To tackle this issue, I have with me Maddy Haughton-Boakes, a Senior Campaigner at Changing Markets Foundation. Changing Markets has been doing amazing work investigating, documenting and reporting on the current mis and dis-information campaign about food systems.

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Changing Markets' Reports: https://changingmarkets.org/campaigns/climate-misinformation/

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