Veganizing Cyprus with Farah Shammas

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

What happens when you’ve dedicated your life to the family business and suddenly become vegan? This week, we are joined by Farah Shammas, who tells us all about how she has helped make her family’s resort hotel and the restaurants therein into a vegan-friendly oasis. She also dishes on the vegan scene in Cyprus and tells us about her books!

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Farah Shammas is the Managing Director of the St Raphael Resort and Marina in Cyprus. After learning about the meat and dairy industry, she obtained a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies through eCornell and started to institute vegan changes in the hotel. Her passion has driven her to share her knowledge and recipes via her social media platform ‘Cook Vegan’ and publish 40 Delicious Vegan Recipes, as well as two children’s books, Theo the Pig and A Little Boy Called Noah.

RESOURCES

• Exes and Ohs Substack: Does God actually matter? Should animals care whether you are an atheist or a believer?
• How public universities hooked America on meat
• Bird flu: How US states are testing cattle and humans for the virus
• St Raphael Resort website
• St Raphael Resort on Facebook
• St Raphael Resort on Instagram
• St Raphael Resort on Youtube
• St Raphael Resort on X (formerly Twitter)
• Cook Vegan on Youtube
• Cook Vegan Facebook group
• Farah’s Club on Instagram
• Scarlet Spark website
• Scarlet Spark’s Skill Sparks landing page
• Scarlet Spark’s free leadership skills workshops
• Scarlet Spark’s leadership tools

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