And the Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of the Disclosure Podcast. I am your host Ed. Thank you so much for clicking on today's podcast. I really hope you enjoy it.

I'm very excited for this particular podcast as it is an interview with Mike the vegan

who I've looked up to you for a long time and whose work has been

invaluable both to myself but also invaluable to the vegan community in general but we'll

talk more about Mike in a minute before we get into the interview but I just want to

start by saying that I hope you're all well and I hope you're all safe. We are living through unprecedented times right now and also quite

frightening times and for many people very difficult times and so I hope that you're able to look

after yourselves and I hope that your families and your loved ones are also safe and

hopefully we will begin to see the other side of this soon.

So we'll get into this week's podcast episode which is related to the pandemic and related

in general to animal exploitation and the pandemic, touch on those topics.

But before we get into it,

I just want to say a couple of things.

The first thing is, if you have listened to the Disclosure

Podcast before,

maybe you're a regular listener,

and maybe you've enjoyed the podcasts, then it would be great if you could

leave a review on iTunes because it allows more people to come across the

podcast and it encourages more people to listen to it so if you're able to leave a

review on iTunes then that would mean the world to me and I would

greatly appreciate it. As well as that I also do a monthly patron only podcast which is like a

Q&A so a patron is where you can sign up to support my activism work and if you're doing so you can access this monthly

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