Episodes

Mercy for Animals has just released an undercover investigation into a Nebraska pig farm that documents extreme suffering by mother pigs kept in crates barely larger than their bodies, repeatedly impregnated against their will. If this upsets you, there is something you can do now: stop eating animals. Mercy for Animals is also a leading voice fighting the proposed EATS Act, being pushed by pro-meat/dairy industry lawmakers. The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act would wipe out num...

#UnchainedTV Talks to the New Vegan WINNER of the Food Network’s Hit Show! Taylor Herbert is one half of Denver’s The Easy Vegan, which just WON The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network. The other winning half, Alexi Mandolini, is busy cooking! The Easy Vegan, a queer-owned, pop-up kitchen, won a $50,000 prize after finishing first on the Food Network's 16th season of The Great Food Truck Race.” The final leg of the competition was at Bestie’s Vegan Paradise in LA!

UnchainedTV takes you behind the scenes of 3 of its most popular shows. One is a raw cooking show. One is a nostalgic, yet plant-based, reimagining of America's favorite comfort foods. One is a wild show that veers from the kitchen to the streets of New York. Learn what drives these accomplished women and why they are on a mission. The UNcooking Show, Vintage Veg and Jamie's Corner... the stars of these shows reveal their passion!

Why you might be meeting the next J. K. Rowling or Stephen King... or both! DEAR TUI, a Warning is a fascinating novel about the demise of our planet, seen through the eyes of a 9-year-old girl, written by prolific author M C Ronen. Buy here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/M.-C-Ronen/author/B07QDVSCRK Also, Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood. Comic artists Sam Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado tell the story of Happy, the elephant and the struggle to get her rights in a court of law...

In AMERICA GOES VEGAN!, author Glen Merzer explains why a plant-based diet is the best hope for America and the world, and Tracy Childs provides recipes that adapt America's favorite comfort foods to make that transition as delicious as it will be glorious for our health and the environment. If America goes vegan, the world is likely to follow, and this book was designed to show how easy that can be, if only we make the effort. Meet the authors, Glen Merzer and Tracy Childs, as UnchainedTV's Jan...

UnchainedTV speaks with one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between Judaism and veganism. Professor Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. is the author of numerous books, including: Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalizing Judaism; Judaism and Vegetarianism; Judaism and Global Survival; Mathematics and Global Survival; and Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal Our Imperiled Planet. He has also been published in the Jerusalem Post and has m...

This VoiceAmerica/UnchainedTV podcast is devoted to dogs! America’s dogs would be one of the largest meat-eating countries in the world, were they their own nation. So… since the human companions of dogs are presumably animal lovers, how can they reduce the number of animals killed while still giving their dogs all the nutrients their animals need? The answer is: nutritionally-sound, plant-based, dog food. Now, a new study says dogs can live healthy lives on a 100% plant-based diet. We will talk...

Famed Canadian animal activist Jenny McQueen and some of her co-defendants join us to discuss their sentences, just handed down in the wake of their guilty verdicts for breaking and entering and obstructing a peace officer. Find out what they got. In 2019, they entered a Canadian pig breeding facility and videotaping the horrific conditions, demanding action for the helpless animals. While handing down the guilty verdicts, even the judge said, “several of those images are impactful, poignant, tr...

Eat Differently is a powerful, new PSA campaign featuring Paul McCartney, Jane Goodall, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Einstein, Cesar Chavez and other revolutionary thinkers. It's aim is to inspire people to eat plants, not animals. An homage to the 1990's famous Think Different campaign, this is one of the largest efforts ever to advocate for a diet of plants, not animals. It directly counters the dairy industry’s “Got Milk” campaign. Visit http://eatdifferently.com/ Also, non...

Still eating chicken? Well, then you MUST listen to this episode. An Animal Outlook undercover investigator joins us LIVE (without revealing his or her identity) to tell us about the horrific conditions this individual documented on video while working at a Virginia chicken farm. Among the allegations: water deprivation to the point that birds died of dehydration, food deprivation because feed was not delivered on schedule, birds thrown and kicked, injured and deformed, left to suffer. Animal Ou...

Join Lady Freethinker’s campaign to save Sumatran dogs from the horrific dog meat trade. Lady Freethinker herself gives UnchainedTV the lowdown on how YOU can help stop this nightmare by signing the petition to Indonesia’s government. Her investigation has documented apparently sick and emaciated dogs with scars being transported 17 hours for slaughter, getting yanked off a truck with a long snare pole, and then being shoved into burlap sacks that were tied shut. Let’s end this! Sign the petitio...

Well-known Canadian animal activist Jenny McQueen and some of her co-defendants join us to discuss their guilty verdicts for breaking and entering and obstructing a peace officer. In 2019, they entered a Canadian pig breeding facility in a Direct Action Everywhere campaign and videotaped the horrific conditions, demanding action for the helpless animals in very grim conditions. While handing down the guilty verdicts, even the judge noted that “several of those images are impactful, poignant, tro...

A Swiss couple decides to use their wedding as a chance to make a statement about animal rights and all hell breaks loose. Get an inside peak at a hot new vegan movie in production. You can be a part of this really UNIQUE film by donating via this IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/humankindness-the-animal-dilemma-documentary-film#/ An open rescue of a lamb in a wedding dress … need we say more? This is a MUST SEE MOVIE! Now, meet Anja & Matej Glivar, the amazing husband and wife team...

This brilliant new book exposes The Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3VqzPnq Edited by Hope Bohanec, it can wake up animal loving people scammed into thinking they are not hurting animals when they buy meat and dairy! This is a HUGE part of the puzzle when it comes to transitioning our culture to plant-based! With contributions from Robert Grillo of @FreefromHarm, Dr. Sailesh Rao of @ClimateHealers, Dr Lisa Barca, Eugene Soul Eubanks of @soul_euban...

Elephant advocate Courtney Fern brings us the very latest on UnchainedTV LIVE! A proposed law would ban elephant captivity in New York City. This would mark a major turning point for animal rights. Visit: https://www.nonhumanrights.org/ The bill builds on NYC’s existing ban on elephants in circuses. If passed, it would be the first elephant captivity ban in the US passed in a City that currently has elephants in captivity. It is supported by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) and Voters For Anim...

Meet the organizers of Vegan Earth Day March, set to happen in 45 cities around the world on... Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22nd, 2023. To attend a Vegan Earth Day March, or start one in your city or town, visit: https://www.veganearthdaymarch.org/ Our panelists explain why it's so crucial to connect what we eat with climate change. You can lower your climate price tag enormously 3 times a day by eating a plant-based diet, which has a much lower emissions footprint than meat or dairy. Ou...

Jenny Goldfarb is a powerhouse entrepreneur with a huge heart. Find out how she has accomplished what many saw as impossible! Growing up with a rich family tradition of deli food, she went vegan for the animals. Then, she found herself craving a classic New York deli sandwich. So, she decided to make a pastrami sandwich, but make it 100% plant-based! It was so delicious, her non-vegan friends could hardly believe it contained no meat. What started as a kitchen hobby has turned into a spectacular...

Victory, as the decades-long battle to free Lolita, the killer whale, has finally resulted in the decision to release her from the Miami Seaquarium. Lolita was violently captured more than half a century ago, ripped from her pod in 1970. Now 56 years old, she is to be returned to her home in the Pacific Northwest. With relentless protests, PETA continually reminded the world of Lolita’s imprisonment. What does this victory mean for the animal rights movement? Watch and find out. UnchainedTV will...

Get involved with Woodstock Farm Sanctuary’s 2023 campaign to convince Tractor Supply to stop selling baby birds. There’s a petition you can sign at https://woodstocksanctuary.org. The sanctuary is also urging the NY State Fair Birthing Center to end the live birthing demos of dairy cows in 2023. 'The petition is at the bottom of this page: https://woodstocksanctuary.org/woodstock-blog/ourfaircoalition ' The Sanctuary is doing SO much, caring for more than 380 rescued farmed animals, providing t...

PETA’s Kathy Guillermo, Senior Vice President for Laboratory Investigations has breaking news on several fronts! PETA has just pledged ONE MILLION DOLLARS to put 1,000 illegally imported long-tailed macaques into the Texas Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary! PETA is also battling America’s cruel and morally bankrupt National Institutes of Health for funding a notorious Columbian primate research center. Authorities there seized over 100 monkeys who were in horrific conditions. Yet, our NIH twiddles...

31-Day Food Revolution is a guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Author Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn’t want people to know, how specific ingredients and methods could be making people sick, and what they can do about it. And he shows how to use the amazing power of delicious food to heal the gut, lose excess weight, and lower the risk for disease — all while contributing to a healthier planet. In his nonjudgmental and down-to-earth way, Ocean R...

Bundles of beagles were freed from a private contract research testing laboratory thanks to the relentless work of Beagle Freedom Project. Many of these beagles had never touched grass, experienced the outdoors or played with a toy. Some are over 8 years of age. Instead, they were tattooed with a number. Beagle Freedom Project President Shannon Keith tells us the story of how she and her team whisked these beagles to freedom and transitioned them to loving foster homes, where they will get a nam...

Get the latest breaking news on Mercy for Animals and The Transfarmation Project, helping farmers transition out of chicken factory farming and into growing hemp and other plant-based products, often using the same sheds. MFA’s CEO and President, Leah Garcés, will also bring us the latest on the Farm Bill, which is riddled with outrageous subsidies to animal agriculture and is coming up for renewal. You’ll learn how you can support the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA) to protect a...

The Animal Activist Legal Defense Project, led by renowned attorney Carter Dillard, is now representing animal activists all over the United States. Recently, there was a fascinating legal summit unpacking the historic acquittal of two Direct Action Everywhere animal activists who faced over a decade in prison for rescuing two sick piglets from a Utah factory farm. The summit tried to figure out what exactly what made the jurors, in a conservative Utah county, find the defendants, Wayne Hsiung a...