Episodes

Jane talks to the leaders of the Central Coast VegFest, one of the most popular VegFests in California! We will discuss the importance of VegFests in today's culture. We will also find out how VegFests work, how they get speakers, what speakers they will have. Hint: Jane is one of this year's speakers! The Central Coast VegFest is: Saturday, February 23rd 2019 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at SLOUMC, 1515 Fredericks Street San Luis Obispo, California It's a great, scenic drive from anywhere in California an...

When it comes to the human wellness experience, Dr. Angie says, “My passion is to provide healing through an integrative approach to keep patients healthy and youthful. Most people spend the latter years of life dealing with chronic disease. My mission is to bring healing and improve the quality of life for those individuals looking to stay fit and healthy, through use of nutrition, fitness, and bio-identical hormone therapy.” Dr. Angie Sadeghi is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Me...

This episode was inspired by a question from someone at VoiceAmerica Internet Radio. The question was: how exactly do you become vegan? So, host Jane Velez-Mitchell and her team -Dani Rukin and Paige Parsons Roache - will explain exactly how to make the transition to a healthy, compassionate, environmentally sound lifestyle. Step one starts in the kitchen, where we simply replace meat/dairy products with plant-based alternatives!

Conscious Capitalist PR firm Scout22 is led by Lori and Jim Amos. They promote companies that they can be proud of and whose values align with theirs. Jim and Lori have a simple mantra: WE ARE A FULL-SERVICE MARKETING AGENCY THAT WORKS EXCLUSIVELY WITH CONSCIOUS CAPITALIST BRANDS. OUR ETHOS IS SIMPLE—COMMERCE AND ETHICS CAN AND SHOULD CO-EXIST. IF YOU SHARE OUR PHILOSOPHY, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. Says Lori: “If we don’t align with what we see, we simply say “Thanks, but no thanks.” We choose...

Jane interviews the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Plant Power Fast Food, California's answer to McDonalds. This vegan fast food chain has three locations, in San Diego, Encinitas and Redlands and is coming soon to Long Beach! Their food is fast but it's darn good. And, it's cholesterol free and healthier than regular fast food fare. Company executive Jeff Harris talks to Jane Velez-Mitchell about trends. The Economist has called 2019: the year of the vegan!

Jane discusses the WhiteCoatWaste.org campaign to STOP taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, monkeys, cats and other animals and stop wasteful government spending. Their approach? Drain the swamp: cut federal spending that hurts animals and Americans. Our guest, Justin Goodman, is the Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a non-profit with 350,000 supporters. He leads investigations and bipartisan policy campaigns to end secrecy, waste and abuse in taxpay...

Vegan Powerhouse Jasmin Singer joins us to discuss where the vegan movement is today and her involvement in many aspects of it. Jasmin is the author of: Always Too Much And Never Enough: one woman’s journey to find herself through juicing, veganism, and love, as she went from fat to thin and from feeding her emotions to feeding her soul.

Campaign Victory: BOCA Confirms Most of Its Products are Now Vegan! Compassion Over Killing is excited to share this breaking news update about our campaign to persuade BOCA Foods to ditch dairy. Over the past few months, the company has eliminated all but 4 items with dairy. That means 8 of BOCA’s 12 products are now completely vegan! BOCA Brand Manager Eric Palmer confirmed in a statement to COK: “At BOCA, we understand there are consumers who follow a vegan lifestyle or who otherwise avoid da...

Between 25 and 100 million animals are killed in U.S. laboratories after suffering through cruel and unnecessary experiments. But why did we give you such a huge range? Why couldn’t we give you a more precise figure? It’s because 95% of the animals used in research and testing are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act and the government is not required to report the number of these animals. This means that we have no idea how many birds, mice, rats, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and invertebrates ...

Jane Velez-Mitchell interviews Shannon Keith, the head of RescueFreedomProject.org. This organization negotiates with laboratories to get dogs and other animals out of cages and release them to good homes. Their organization became a global phenomenon after a video they produced went viral. It showed beagles, who were freed from labs, touching grass for the first time and experiencing freedom from a cage for the first time. You will cry.

The Animal Rights Movement is about achieving more basic rights for animals. A lot of that progress happens in the legal system. Different animals have different rights. Farm animals, 9 billion of whom are tortured and killed every year in America, have virtually no rights, far less than dogs and cats for example. You can do to a cow or a pig things that would land you in jail of you did them to a dog or a cat. Advancing Law for Animals is determined to change that.

Renee King-Sonnen is a cattle rancher's wife who turned vegan and turned her husband's cattle ranch into a vegan farm animal sanctuary. Now, she's trying to help other ranchers do the same... or at least come up with another way to make a living.

What is causing the coast to coast severe and destructive weather? The answer is on your plate.

So Cal Veg Fest is just wrapped and we get the low down on how it went from the organizer: Maryam of Vegan Couture!

Mark Devries is an attorney, animal activist, documentary film producer and drone expert. We will discuss what his drones revealed when they flew over storm ravaged sections of North Carolina and how that horror relates to climate change, habitat destruction, species extinction, pollution and the threat of disease.

We speak to Vanessa Marsot, the founder of Allora Wellness Center. Vanessa went to Yale and then undertook a long and windy journey to compassion. We will hear her story. Vanessa Marsot's greatest mission and passion is to stop the suffering of animals and to do that, in a few weeks, she is opening the permanent storefront for Ellora Vegan Organic Wellness Center, a one-stop shop of creative, cruelty-free living. She also just helped to organize the first ever Vegan Reggae Fest in LA October 7th...

Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to social media influencer Ryuji Chua, who goes by Peace By Vegan on Instagram. He is extremely articulate and well read and brings us a Gen Next take on the movement towards compassion to all living beings.

Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to healer and vegan chef Kristen D'Amato about self-love as it relates to activism and a desire for social change and evolution to a more compassionate world!

JaneUnChained.com is in the midst of a Europe tour with several contributors. Jane and Donna just returned. What have we learned about where Europe is in terms of animal rights and veganism? A lot, which we will share with our listeners. Dani Rukin did an extended tour and covered the massive London Animal Rights March! What was that like? We'll find out!

Animal Alliance Network works in coordination with the Save Movement. Their mission is to educate, take action, do outreach, & spread awareness about the daily abuse animals endure every day due to human practices. AAN holds weekly vigils at a pig slaughterhouse near downtown Los Angeles. AAN members also take part in other vigils and protests against fast food and animal agriculture.

Two young entrepreneurs founded US Veg Corp and have quickly grown it into one of the biggest and hippest Vegan festivals around, drawing packed crowds in NYC, LA and points in between. We discuss this fast growing movement. Sarah Gross Feoli and Nira Paliwoda are the founders of U.S. Veg Corp. U.S. Veg Corp is an event production and marketing brand focused on the growing vegetarian and green markets. Both active members in the East and West Coasts' plant-based movements, Sarah and Nira met thr...

Donny Moss, founder and editor of TheirTurn.net, runs extraordinary animal rights campaigns out of New York. He will review and explain why he goes into the discomfort zone for animals!