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Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. That's the old saying. But, what if the opposite is true? Today's language denigrates animals with many common phrases encouraging cruelty and violence against animals. Now that the cat's out of the bag should be kill two birds with one stone? Or should we feed two birds with one scone to liberate language from the bondage of speciesism? Today's guest is the vegan/animal rights author of a trilogy of novels, literature that does ...

When cyclist Dotsie Bausch quit dairy at 37, many in her circle warned it would jeopardize her Olympic dreams. The opposite happened. Her athletic recovery and performance went through the roof and propelled her forward to victory in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Now, she has a message for other athletes and consumers worldwide. Dotsie founded switch4good.org to spread the word. A growing number of Olympic athletes are joining the call to ditch dairy now! It was pretty mind blowing; without ani...

Whistler, Canada is a famous ski resort! Now, it’s also home to an increasingly famous vegan bakery! BReD is a 100% plant-based, organic, sourdough bakery specializing in bread with an emphasis on whole grains, naturally leavened and baked fresh every day, as well as small baked goods such as cinnamon buns, which are all made from scratch in-house with locally-sourced seasonal ingredients; and serving up a range of specialty drinks including espresso coffees. BReD has already planted 9504 trees ...

Bear Boy, written by Justin Barker, is a coming-of-age story about standing up for animals, questioning authority, and discovering the power of activism. Justin is a typical teenager, dodging school bullies and waging an endless war with his parents. But when he discovers Ursula and Brutus -two sibling black bears being kept in horrific conditions at a nearby zoo- his life begins to change. He finds a cause that ignites his passion.... And, for the rest, you will have to get this amazing book. F...

Vegan dog food is trending. Shark Tank's Mark Cuban made a splash when he invested in a vegan kibble with the cameras rolling! That's just one of many vegan dog food products out there. Now, there's research into the benefits of a plant-based diet for dogs. Here to discuss is respected veterinarian Dr. Tonatiuh (Tona) Melgarejo, a Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences in California. JaneUnChained.com's Jane Velez-Mitchell does the interview.

The CDC says, “Scientists estimate that more than 6 out of every 10 known infectious diseases in people can be spread from animals, and 3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals.” So, you’d think our government would do whatever it could to discourage wet markets, which are retail slaughterhouses, where customers take home the carcass right after the animal is slaughtered on site. But, no, our government is doing very little to counteract that danger. Now, ...

Get the inside scoop on the fastest growing sector of the food industry: plant-based products. Dairy alternatives are experiencing explosive growth. The wildly popular vegan oat milk maker Oatly went public in May of 2021 and was swiftly valued at $10 billion. This is just the latest sign that the consumer move to vegan products is a skyrocketing trend. This blockbuster IPO comes on the heels of the Beyond Meat IPO in 2019 which was also a spectacular success. Meat alternatives are increasing in...

Compassion in World Farming has a new Evaluate Your Plate calculator. The calculator is a first-of-its-kind, interactive tool that takes a comprehensive look at what you eat and how it impacts climate change and the world around us – beyond greenhouse gases to land and water use, pollution, biodiversity loss, and impact on animals. Says CIFW, “If people continue to simply swap beef for chicken and fish, as they have been led to believe is the environmentally-friendly choice, we will inadvertentl...

For 25 years, Animal Outlook has been on the front lines of animal advocacy, speaking truth to power in Washington D.C., where It is based, and beyond. This national nonprofit 501(c)(3) is on a mission: to change the world for animals. Animal Outlook has made headlines in the New York Times and other media, breaking through the mainstream news blackout on animal rights where others have failed. Its focus is on exposing the rampant animal cruelty on factory farms through daring undercover investi...

New York Times bestselling author and Tedx talker Kathy Freston is out with a brand new book! 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is a compact, easy to digest, and highly entertaining summary of why plant-based is the solution to so many of our problems! Order NOW for immediate delivery in print or audible: https://amzn.to/2PGhaqe It’s everything you need to know about graduating beyond meat and dairy, but may have been afraid to ask! Co-authored by NYT bestselling author Gene Stone, it covers nutrition, dis...

The Agriculture Fairness Alliance is looking for 43 champions who could literally save the world from an environmental apocalypse. AFA sends lobbyists into the halls of Congress to educate members of Congress, U.S. senators, and their staff, about the reality of animal agriculture’s devastating impact on the climate, human health, world hunger, habitat destruction, wildlife extinction, and pollution… and the connection between animal abuse and pandemics. But, these lobbyists need funding! Curren...

If you want life on this planet to survive… register NOW for the Virtual Vegan World 2026 Convergence on Saturday, April 24th. ?Hosted by ClimateHealers.org, which was founded by Dr. Sailesh Rao, the Stanford Ph.D., systems analyst and engineer, who was instrumental in the development of the Internet and who is creating a system to achieve a vegan world by 2026. Learn all about it during this broadcast. ?This next convergence starts at: 11:00 am Eastern, Saturday, April 24, 2021 to Sunday 9:00 p...

Vegans Against All Oppression (VAAO) is an international vegan coalition, working to transform and confront oppressive structures in human society today. This is a social network for vegans who create change in the world through online outreach as well as street actions. This platform connects activists globally in order to effect positive change in our world. It facilitates human and non-human animal activism through our network of activist vegans. In this network, you can find articles on huma...

#BreakingNews: The world’s first vegan hospital says it’s tackling one of the biggest problems in the health industry that few are talking about: feeding artery-clogging meat and dairy to patients who are ill and hospitalized. This is all happening in Beirut, Lebanon. Hayek Hospital is a family-owned private medical facility that switched out its menu in March of 2021 to 100% plant-based options. The hospital announced it this way. “Our patients will no longer wake up from surgery to be greeted ...

Animals are not things. They are living, breathing, thinking, feeling beings. That’s why In Defense of Animals and Animals & Media are calling for an update to the Associated Press Stylebook’s recommendation on the use of personal pronouns for nonhuman animals. They are joined by more than 80 respected leaders and scholars in animal advocacy and conservation who support this change, including renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, biologists Dr. Marc Bekoff and Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, and leade...

So often the roadblock to living an optimally healthful life is… family. There are so many misconceptions that powerful interests promote to try and get parents to feed their children cow’s milk, which — because we’re not cows - is not healthy and can foster health problems. Ditto for meat consumption, which can lead to preventable illnesses like heart disease. Processed meat, which includes deli slices and bacon, has officially been declared to be a carcinogen by the World Health Organization, ...

Plantpurenation.com is where you can order the most delicious, 100% plant-based meals, delivered right to your door. PlantPure's goal is to launch a revolution that transforms society. The best way to do that? Make absolutely delicious meals! PlantPureNation founder Nelson Campbell also directed the powerful film PlantPure Nation, which examines the political and economic factors that have suppressed information on the benefits of plant-based nutrition. In addition to his food business and his f...

Plant Perfect's line of vegan salad dressings are darn so good, I couldn't stop myself from gobbling up the samples before this show, exclaimed JaneUnChained host Jane Velez-Mitchell. The dynamic Mark Garrison, and his team, have whipped up an array of vegan salad dressings that are shelf-stable, zero cholesterol, free of any palm oil, non-GMO and absolutely delicious! These salad dressings are available at Whole Foods. Plant Perfect also has a vegan mayonnaise that will rock your world. And, co...

As the vegan movement explodes on the world stage, how can anyone keep up with everything that's happening? Enter Vegevents.com. VegEvents bills itself as the world's largest vegan event calendar. The website has over 1,000 vegan events around the world listed at any given time. Before the pandemic, there were over 3,000 events at any given time. And, every week, 3,400 people around the world receive an email specific to them with vegan events near them or online. The website is built in such a ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the world's richest and most influential businessmen, recently made headlines by declaring that rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef because of the cattle industry's impact on climate change. Now that the establishment has begun acknowledging what vegans have shouted from the rooftops for years, it's fair to ask: how do we accomplish this? Answer: make delicious plant-based meats. Enter Hungry Planet. This company declares it's on a mis...

Veganism is skyrocketing. More and more Americans are identifying themselves as plant-based. Reports from publications, like The Beet, say veganism is growing fastest in the African-American community! Today, we’re talking to powerful leaders of that movement who are involved in the Veguary campaign. Veguary is a FREE month-long pledge campaign encouraging people to commit to vegan living during the month of February. “This campaign is purposefully situated in the month of February - Black Histo...

“‘Ethical veganism’ is a protected class akin to religion in the U.K. after a landmark ruling.” So blared a headline in the Washington Post. Now, meet the man who made that happen! Jordi Casamitjana argued that he was fired from his job at an animal rights organization after telling colleagues that the group’s pension funds invested in companies that experiment on animals. The United Kingdom’s Equality Act says, in order to be covered as a protected class, the belief must be “genuinely held; be ...

Our food system, our health care system, our national response to the pandemic, and our battle against climate change. It's all in shambles. Why? Because we fail to address the root cause of each one of these problems. That root cause is modern-day, industrialized animal agriculture. It is literally destroying our planet. We're in a pandemic brought on by a zoonotic illness, meaning it jumped from animals to humans. Yet few speak of how to prevent the next pandemic, which could come from a conce...

Former Pittsburgh Steeler Weslye Saunders talks plant-based health with Better Food Foundation’s Laura Cascada! Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts. DefaultVeg is the simple idea of reframing what we think of as normal to plant-based foods. This strategy, which is simply setting the default to be the plant-based option instead of the other way around, has been adopted by 50+ institutions from Harvard Sustainability to the American Lung Association to reduce their environmental footprints. Now, DefaultVeg ...