The Truth Files with Jane Velez-Mitchell

Coffee lovers who indulge in the world's priciest brew may have no idea they're sipping on a cup of animal cruelty. An investigator from Los-Angeles based animal rights organization Lady Freethinker visited multiple locations in Bali, Indonesia selling kopi luwak – coffee made by feeding civet cats, also called luwaks, coffee cherries and collecting their excrement – and documented the filthy, mis...

Vegan expert Tracye McQuirter, MPH, will give black women the support they need to go vegan, get healthy, and feel great for life. "The 10,000 Black Vegan Women program will help 10,000 African American women go vegan in 2020 to live longer, healthier lives," says Tracye McQuirter. "Although we have a long history of plant-based pioneers and activists, including Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Ang...

U.S. House Takes Action on Legislation to End the Brutal Butcher of American Equines The U.S. House held hearings on the slaughter of American horses for overseas markets for human consumption. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee heard testimony on the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act, H.R. 961. The Senate companion, S. 2006, was introduced by U.S. Sens. Bob Men...

After years of campaigning by Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing), Starbucks may finally be catching up with the sizzling demand for vegan food by teasing a meaty vegan breakfast item. In a new sustainability commitment on its US website, the coffee giant declares, "From more plant-based food and beverages to reusables, Starbucks is looking far and wide for opportunities to transform...

Slaughter Free Cities is a movement that seeks to end the destructive role animal agriculture plays in society. Meat is a leading cause of human disease, climate change and animal suffering. Right now in NYC, Slaughter Free Cities and the Animal Save Movement are coming together with local New York organizers as a unity effort to help Slaughter Free Cities generate widespread impact throughout 202...

Animal welfare and environmental protection organizations often overlook how the food served at their events and fundraisers may conflict with their missions. Animal shelters will serve animals such as cows, pigs, and chickens as food (e.g. burgers, ice cream, or even a pig roast) to raise funds for the cats and dogs they rescue under the missions of promoting compassion for animals or reducing th...

Immerse yourself in the world of animal rights protests, campaigns, demonstrations, outreach, rescue, and so much more through the book: Voices for Animal Liberation. People across the globe are recognizing animal rights as a social justice movement. During a time of historic actions and victorious campaigns, Voices for Animal Liberation depicts the full spectrum of animal rights activism that is...

Do you want to kick off 2020 with good health, fitness and energy? Then join Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's 21-Day Vegan Kickstart! The PCRM challenge beings on Jan 1st, 2020 and runs through Jan 21st! Learn all about it at: https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en. You can even download an app that will guide you through your transformation! Additionally, every day of the kickstart, #LunchB...

Social Compassion In Legislation (SCIL) scored massive victories for animals in 2019. We review them all and talk about the impact California, the world's 5th largest economy, has on the world at large. SCIL has been a vanguard voice sponsoring landmark legislation since our founding in 2007. Whether local, state, or federal our mission is saving and protecting animals. Social Compassion In Legisl...

All across the United States, people are transforming their lives with a plant-based diet. They are beating heart disease, type 2 diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer, and they want you to know that trying a vegan diet could change – or save – your life, too. In association with her organization's 'Make America Healthy Again' campaign, and working alongside Earthlings film Director Shaun Monso...

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 ar...

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,...

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...

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...

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 sa...

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 indust...

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 climat...

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,...

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...

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...

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 Atlan...

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 th...

The meatless revolution is underway as Beyond Meat's IPO proved to be the most successful IPO since 2008! Now, the meatless Impossible Whopper is rolling out at Burger King's nationwide! There are also numerous game changers in the plant-based milk/ice cream space! We will discuss it all!