Episodes

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 ...

What would Jesus say about modern-day, industrialized animal agriculture, where 60,000 hens are crammed into a giant windowless warehouse, where baby calves are ripped from their bellowing mothers, where chickens are debeaked, where tails are sliced off because they just get in the way? Here's another question. What's it like to be a vegan minister in a time of such massive, yet widely accepted, cruelty? That's the question we address in this broadcast as we speak with a modern reverend who is a...

White Coat Waste is a powerhouse advocate for animals in our nation's capital, focusing on ending unnecessary, wasteful, and horrifically cruel experiments on animals that are taxpayer-funded. The organization has had a lot of success exposing how absurd most of these experiments are. From constipation to cannibalism, the excuses these pseudo-scientists use to subject animals to extreme suffering would be laughable... except that the torture these animals endure is tragic. If an individual did t...

BeVeg is the world’s leading vegan certification company, founded and led by prominent attorney Carissa Kranz, today's interview subject. The BeVeg vegan standard is the benchmark for vegan assurance, giving you the confidence you need to access new markets and establish new business that meets vegan consumer expectations. BeVeg is ISO accredited and recognized by the world accreditation community for its vegan standard. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization that develops and...

Pandemic: that's the word that best defines 2020. It held us all in its grip, some more tragically than others. What can we learn from this experience? How can we prevent it from happening again? What is the connection to veganism? COVID-19 is a zoonotic illness that jumped from animals to humans. Whether you believe the likely scenario that it first cropped up in a retail slaughter market in China or not... it is a zoonotic illness. The details don't change that essential fact. If we lived in a...

Written by VegNews Senior Online Features Editor Jasmin Singer, this book makes a bold promise! You can look good, feel good and do good in just 30 Days! Sounds like a plan, right? The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan makes personal evolution a fun adventure. It's won praise from Joaquin Phoenix, Daisy Fuentes, Mena Suvari, Mayim Bialik, Evanna Lynch, Tig Notaro and your host Jane Velez-Mitchell, among others. First of all, Jasmin is hilarious and you will chuckle your way through this. F...

It's a breakthrough in the fight to end animal testing! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just launched Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs aka ISTAND. This pilot program will help reduce and replace animal testing as part of drug development. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has worked toward this goal for several years by meeting with the FDA and Congress and providing expert input, hosting Congressional briefings, and leading drug developm...

We know how crucial it is to get enough water. Now, a new product gives the hydration space a superfood blast. RDCL Superfoods has just launched two plant-based, superfood-packed drink mixes: Passion Fruit and Dragon Fruit Superberry. Just add water and you’ve made that essential, but sometimes a tad dull, drink a colorful, flavorful delight. This new product was co-founded by Donny Makower, the CEO of RDCL Superfoods who says the COVID-19 pandemic has made the need for energy and immunity-boost...

HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene is an unflinching book of photography documenting our relationship with non-human animals in the 21st century, as depicted through the lenses of 40 award-winning photojournalists. It focuses on the invisible animals in our lives: those with whom we have a close relationship and yet fail to see. They are the animals we eat and the animals we wear. They are the animals used in research and for entertainment, as well as the animals we sacrifice in the name of tra...

As a scandal swept through the meat industry, a summit was held to end animal agriculture by helping farmers and ranchers thrive on their land without using animals. As vegan leaders were brainstorming with ranchers and farmers about how to transition out of sending animals to slaughter, a leading meat company was making headlines for all the wrong reasons. A lawsuit alleges Tyson slaughterhouse managers were placing money bets on how many of their workers would come down with COVID. Tyson's CEO...

Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls, New York is a state of the art farmed animal sanctuary where every Thanksgiving is celebrated with a touching and joyous ThanksLIVING ceremony. In this scenario, the turkeys, rescued from the horrors of modern day, intensive, factory farming, are not eaten. Instead, humans feed THEM delectable treats like cranberries and pies. The turkeys really enjoy the celebration. The humans get to see these magnificent beings for who they are: individuals, each with a...

We live in a finite world where we are consuming resources at a rate that is simply not sustainable. We will run out of life's essentials if we don't adapt. Having Kids is an organization that urges vegans to expand their view of the practice to include advocacy for better family planning: https://havingkids.org/real-animal-rights-starts-with-fair-start-family-planning. Led by famed attorney Carter Dillard, the organization would love activists to go beyond consumption and think in terms of buil...

PlantBasedNeighbor.com is a new APP, currently in beta testing as a website. A project of JaneUnChained News Network, which is a 501c-3 non-profit, its mission is to connect vegans and vegetarians with like minded individuals in their own neighborhoods and beyond. It is set to become an APP in early 2021. But, YOU can sign up now! It's lots of fun. Find out how many vegans and vegetarians there are in YOUR neighborhood. In the meantime, we're kicking it off with a word contest. A lot of common p...

We all seek the fountain of youth. But, is there really such a thing? Well, yes, and you don't have to take a ship around the world to find it. It's right there staring you in the face 3 times a day.... on your plate. Yes, it's your food. Now, meet a vibrant woman who defies age. Karyn Calabrese is one of the most innovative leaders in the health and holistic world. A vegan, she is an expert in how to cleanse your body and then replenish it with nutrients, antioxidants and superfoods in the form...

On October 13th, 2020, the New York Times held a virtual talk entitled: Feeding the World! The world’s most influential newspaper has huge power to shape cultural norms. So, four vegans attended. What we heard shocked and dismayed us. There was little discussion of global hunger. According to the NYT’s own reporting, “an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year’s end.” There was scant discussion of big picture solutions and more talk of the availability of ...

Sales of vegan food products are skyrocketing. The Good Food Institute reports that the plant-based food category has grown five times faster than overall U.S. food sales, which also saw an increase of 2.2 percent in 2019, So, what are the products propelling us to a plant-based culture, for human health, climate change reversal, the eradication of world hunger, the prevention of future pandemics and compassion to animals? Cool Beans, the latest innovation in the fast-growing whole-food, plant-b...