Episodes

There is an epic battle between animal activists seeking to reveal the institutional cruelty of modern day factory farming and the industry itself, which seeks to paint a bucolic image of happy farm animals. This struggle is playing out across the globe, in the US, Europe, Latin America and, now in particular, Canada! This podcast focuses on the animal rights movement in Canada, where activists are being arrested as pro-ag industry politicians push for laws to quash undercover investigations and...

There is outrage over a planned bear hunt in New Jersey and critics say the current governor, Phil Murphy, promised to stop the bear hunt and needs to live up to that promise. The action point is simple. Call Governor Phil Murphy at 609 292-6000 and say NO to the bear hunt. Critics say the governor can stop it with an executive order. With wild animal populations being decimated across the globe, now is not the time for weekend warriors to head out in a densely populated state with guns to targe...

Elephants are ripped away from their families and broken in horrific torture scenarios in order to make them tame enough to provide rides for tourists. The videos of the training are the stuff of nightmares. When abducted from the wild, elephant families are separated, gunned down and otherwise violated. All this so that tourists, who think they love elephants, can hop on one and ride them through the streets of India. It's morally indefensible and must be stopped. The way to stop it is simple! ...

Shop For Rescues just may be the first cruelty free online pet supplies retailer using a socially responsible business model known as compassionate commerce. The mission for Shop For Rescues is to use the sale of its pet supplies to create a consistent non-traditional funding mechanism for 501(c)3’s involved with the rescue and transference of dogs, cats and horses from abusive homes, over crowded municipal shelters and kill environments. Impressively, SFR can use up to 27.5% of its gross revenu...

A panel of vegan/animal rights activists, who have attended the climate strike events, talk about how their message has been received by the greater environmental community. Teenage Nobel Prize nominee Greta Thunberg's shifting focus is also a topic. Why isn't she talking about animal agriculture's devastating impact on the climate and massive contribution to climate change? Why do some studies say animal ag contributes 14.5% to climate change, while more recent studies have said 51%. What about...

So much happening in the vegan/animal rights world! This weekend California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law key legislation to protect animals! Now, California will become the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products! This is a massive victory that animal advocates believe will encourage other states to follow suit and spell the end of this cruel and unnecessary industry. The California fur ban, which prohibits the sale or manufacture of clothing, shoes or handbags w...

Some politicians deny climate change. That's bad. Other politicians say it's real but continue to engage in behaviors that cause climate change. That's bad too. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently said we shouldn't get distracted by cheeseburgers and plastic straws. She's wrong. We need to focus on animal agriculture and plastic because both are killing our planet. Others decry climate change while chowing down on fried chicken or steak. Animal agriculture is the leading culprit of ...

Described as the ‘Future of Food,’ Huel's mission is to make nutritionally complete, convenient, affordable food, with minimum impact on animals and the environment. The UK-based brand was co-founded in 2015 by entrepreneur Julian Hearn, and renowned nutrition expert James Collier. The brand is Europe’s number one complete nutrition brand and the fastest-growing nutrition brand in the world today, selling over 1.5 million meals per month. Being nutritionally complete means each product contains ...

Dolly Vyas-Ahuja's grandfather marched with Gandhi in India. Now, Dolly - who hails from Texas - has gone back to India to fight for the freedom of animals tortured for dairy. While India has a strong vegetarian tradition, it is also a huge consumer of dairy. Dolly is making a documentary about her effort to convince the people of India that stealing the breast milk of cows, and ripping away their babies in the process, is not in alignment with the values of their faith and their culture. The tr...

JaneUnChained went LIVE at the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg this past week. Jane Velez Mitchell was there and brings us up to date on the amazing work being done by European animal rights organizations.

Michele is the Founder and President of Solid Rock Community School, a K 12 non profit private school specializing in Educating Out of the Box which started in 2004. She developed the school is philosophy, which emphasizes individualized, whole child development. The school will be offering an entire plant based menu to its students this school year and will be the first of its kind in Florida. An educator at heart, she has a strong desire to bring plant based nutrition education to her families...

Animal Hero Kids in Seven Cities To Give-Out Free Impossible WHOPPERS at Burger King Twin sisters to distribute in Davie, Florida On Monday, August 19, 2019, members of Animal Hero Kids, an animal-kindness education charity, will be distributing free, vegan Impossible WHOPPER burgers outside of six Burger King locations across the United States, including Davie, Florida. Other cities include Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; Orlando, Florida; St. Cloud, Florida ...

KING Charter is striving to be the first plant-based public school in the USA and possibly the world. KING board members believe that all children deserve a right to proper education and nutrition and not just children of economically successful parents. KINGs curriculum will be taught in a trilingual immersion environment in English, Spanish and Mandarin and also incorporate more movement than the average public school both through recess, PE and creative classes that promote additional movemen...

Now, the meatless Impossible Whopper is rolling out at Burger King's nationwide! There are also numerous game changers in the plant-based milk and ice cream space! We will discuss it all!

We meet the amazing activist John Oberg. John is focused on making the animal rights movement more effective, specifically in tactics and communication in the social media realm. In 2019 alone, he's had 100 million impressions on his social media posts. This is because his strategic use of social media, and it’s something he wants others in the movement to take advantage of. Which is why he launched his Patreon page at patreon.com/johnoberg “

After learning that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) advised people to kill green iguanas on their properties “whenever possible” and without specifying any particular killing methods, PETA dispatched a letter this morning to the agency pointing out that randomly killing these wonderful animals won’t curb their population in any significant way, whereas banning their import, possession, sale, exhibition, and breeding would actually reduce the numbers. PETA blasts the a...

In the wake of horrific undercover footage by Animal Recovery Mission, showing violent calf/cow abuse at one America's largest, so-called humane dairy farms, the whole issue of dairy is being debated by the nation and the world. Why are we drinking the breast milk of another species? Is it good for us or bad for us? How do we let Coca-Cola, a partner of Fairlife Milk, whose longtime supplier Fair Oaks is the farm caught abusing animals, know that it would be smarter and more profitable to switch...

This week a protest took place outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. More than a hundred people demonstrated, demanding the Chinese government end the horrific dog meat trade in China, where pets are stolen from yards and right out of people's hands and then tortured to death! Yes, no exaggeration. The tormentors believe that torturing the dog makes the dog meat better at combating virility problems. This is sick. Many Chinese Americans are battling this horror and want to help the Chine...

Vegan hockey player Rick Scott has discovered the health benefits of a vegan diet and promotes plant-based eating to his fellow athletes. He talks about how his endurance has increased on a plant-based diet and how he can outlast hockey players half his age. Rick's focus is also on the dangers of dairy, the mother's milk of another species not designed for us.

8-year old Vegan Evan travels the US with his mom Shannon Blair, speaking wisdom that belies his years. The youngster is such an articulate spokesperson for a compassionate lifestyle. As soon as he finishes Voice America Radio, he will lead a protest against the cruelties of the dairy industry, as documented by (ARM) Animal Recovery Mission's months long undercover investigation of one of the nation's largest dairy farms.

Established by the non-profit Our Planet. Theirs Too. in 2011, The National Animal Rights Day (NARD) is an annual day observed in multiple countries around the world on the first Sunday in June, for the purpose of giving a voice to all animals and raising awareness for their rights, until all animals are free from enslavement and their rights are established and protected by law. On this day, special NARD events are held simultaneously in major cities around the globe. They start with a Memorial...

A Prayer for Compassion is a feature length documentary that strives to inspire and encourage those already on a religious or spiritual path, to expand their circle of compassion to embrace all life, regardless of species, and make choices in alignment with this value.

Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Renee King-Sonnen founded this Texas farm animal sanctuary in 2015 after realizing that she loved animals and, therefore, didn't want to exploit and kill them. Her husband Tommy had a cattle ranch and a calf-cow operation and she gave him an ultimatum. Now, they are both vegan and Renee has become a leader in the animal rights movement having founded the Ranchers Advocacy Program to help other farmers transition out of exploiting and killing animals to plant-based, veganic...