Call her Robin Food.
A Lebanese influencer has divided people online after filming herself prepping mammoth meals for the poor to shame food-wasting celebrities.
Surthany Hejeij, 33, has amassed over 15.7 followers on Instagram with her culinary clips, which always begin with a person discarding an obscene amount of food.
They then cut to heartrending footage of starving children, before the bread-slinging benefactor — who goes by @surthycooks on the platform — whips up behemoth portions of food and distributes them to children and their families in impoverished communities.
In one of her clips, with over 12 million views, a man can be seen dumping a huge portion of rice in the trash.
The clip then transitions to Hejeij cooking up a jacuzzi-like vat of meat while clad in a scintillating silver dress and sporting immaculate makeup.
The bombshell chops up vegetables, mixes them with the protein and stuffs all the accoutrements into tacos, which she then distributes to famished youths — like the Red Cross meets “Rachael Ray.”
In another clip, the brunette bombshell is seen delivering more food to those in need.
The clips melted hearts online with one touched viewer writing, “straight up bawling after seeing those kids’ eyes.”
Another wrote that Hejeij was “single-handedly restoring faith in humanity!”
“You are [an] amazing person with a good heart,” gushed a third.
However, others were less thrilled by her campaign to feed the needy, with many accusing her of exhibiting a savior mentality and simply doing the deed for online “clout.”
While others agreed there was a performative aspect to her heartfelt acts, they believed that her freelance food distribution initiatives did more good than harm.
“She’s doing it for views’ at least she’s doing something beneficial tf?” declared one while defending the meal-slinging Mother Teresa.
Others pointed out that her videos shed light on the global food surplus problem, which sees 80 million tons of food wasted in the US alone each year.
Hejeij’s not the only person highlighting the mounting issue of food waste.
New York City influencer Anna Sacks — aka the Trashwalker — exposes the country’s decadent excesses by filming herself exhuming mountains of perfectly salvageable food and other goods from garbage cans in the Big Apple.
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