The Truth Files with Jane Velez-Mitchell

PETA's founder and leader Ingrid Newkirk is celebrating her 75th birthday! And, UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell is thrilled and honored to get to speak with Ingrid for the hour! Learn about Ingrid's fascinating life, growing up in India and then, somehow, becoming an animal protection officer in the United States. How much progress has been achieved since People for the Ethical Treatment of Anim...

As the battle over the Farm Bill rages on Capitol Hill, 3 animal activists were arrested, during a House committee hearing, for demanding that taxpayers not be forced to pay for massive subsidies to the animal agriculture industry or foot the bill for cruel practices that also devastate the environment and hurt marginalized communities. Robert Grillo, president of the grassroots animal rights orga...

Is there a multi-million dollar misinformation campaign to stop the plant-based food movement in its tracks? The Freedom Food Alliance, led by renowned digital media expert Robbie Lockie, has just released a detailed report which makes that case. Harvesting Denial, Distractions and Deception: Understanding Animal Agriculture's Disinformation Strategies and Exploring Solutions argues that the meat...

What's the state of the vegan scene, globally, when it comes to food and fashion? It's a big question and here to tackle it are two leaders in the field. Carolyn Scott-Hamilton is the founder and host of the Healthy Voyager, a hit vegan cooking show that's now streaming on UnchainedTV here: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/healthy-voyager-s-global-kitchen-w-carolyn-scott-hamilton Carolyn is also the...

Do you love animals? Have you made a vegan/animal rights film, PSA or a social media reel you think is life-changing? The International Vegan Film Festival (IVFF) is a pioneering event in the vegan movement, celebrating the intersection of art and advocacy. And, it's taking new submissions NOW at: https://theivff.com. UnchainedTV is thrilled to be collaborating with IVFF to stream films from the f...

There's a war on elephants in India and one woman is on a mission to stop it and protect every last elephant threatened by man's inhumanity. Sangita Iyer is the producer of Gods in Shackles, a must-watch, award-winning film now streaming for free on UnchainedTV here: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/videos/gods-in-shackles This movie shows how India's religious and cultural ceremonies are torture for...

Meet the woman who's changing the world for millions of animals by passing laws to stop animal abuse. Judie Mancuso is the Founder/President of Social Compassion in Legislation, which has sponsored over 60 bills with 25 landmark pieces of legislation for animals signed into law. Her organization has helped to eliminate the sale of animal-tested cosmetics, crack down on puppy mills, allowed dogs ac...

Meet Jody Rasch, a man of many talents, who went from being a banker to an investor in vegan enterprises and a supporter of many animal organizations including Woodstock Farm Sanctuary and Rowdy Girl Sanctuary. He's also become an accomplished visual artist and a novelist. The Silver Forest is the first in a series of books. He says this novel began as a thought experiment. We'll find out what tha...

Will some of California's biggest factory farms be shut down? A groundbreaking ballot measure to ban massive animal factories, aka CAFOs, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, will be decided by Sonoma County, California voters this November! Will this spread across the nation? UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell speaks with leaders of The Coalition to End Factory Farming which collected over 37,0...

Animal Rising has made global headlines with its risk-taking actions including: sending hundreds of protesters to disrupt England's most famous horse race, rescuing lambs from the estate of the King of England and occupying massive dairy factories. Their mission is to reinvent humanity's broken relationship with animals by getting people to understand that it is morally wrong to use, abuse and kil...

Singapore, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, El Salvador, Mexico, Canada, the USA… and beyond! Rated V for Vegan's Eunice Reyes travels the world, bringing you the best in plant-based cuisine wherever she goes. Now, UnchainedTV is thrilled to announce that Eunice's vegan travel show is streaming on UnchainedTV. Check it out: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/vegan-travel-with-eunice-reyes In this int...

https://watch.unchainedtv.com/unchainedtv-video-podcastVICTORY: After years of PETA protests, the Miami Seaquarium's lease is finally being terminated! Miami-Dade County announced the decision, which requires the animal prison to relinquish the property to its owner by April 21, 2024. PETA's response to the news? "The world watched as the Miami Seaquarium let the lone orca Lolita waste away and di...

Dxe Co-Founder and leader of the Open Rescue Movement talks to UnchainedTV about his recent California conviction and the shocking, dropping of all felony charges against him in a 2017 Beagle Open Rescue case in Wisconsin, days before trial was set to start. You could call it a big victory for animal rights. Most people would be thrilled to avoid the possibility of 16 years in prison. But, the inc...

Watch as PETA leads the fight to stop a plan to build the largest laboratory monkey-breeding facility in the U.S. in Georgia. A lawsuit, filed by outraged local residents, alleged the local county commissioners held an illegal meeting where they approved a 20-year tax abatement scheme worth over $50-MILLION to encourage the construction of what would be the largest monkey prison in the US, capable...

Join famed filmmaker Kip Andersen, of What The Health, Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy fame to discuss his newest film CHRISTSPIRACY! This movie is a shocking, riveting exposé of the BIGGEST COVER-UP IN 2,000 YEARS and it's hitting 600 theaters across the nation! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for Wednesday, March 20th and Sunday, March 24th at https://christspiracy.com/. And, join UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitche...

UnchainedTV has been celebrating Black History Month with a category devoted to videos about the many Black movers and shakers in the vegan movement. Frankly, there are too many to mention. But, suffice it to say, that - according to numerous reports and surveys - African-Americans are going vegan at a higher rate than other demographic groups in the US! And, women are more likely than men to drop...

Fashion should have absolutely nothing to do with cruelty. Now, meet 3 women leading the charge to remove animal products from fashion shows, burlesque shows, showrooms and clothing stores by eliminating all feathers, leather, wool, silk, cashmere and - of course - fur. Monica Kay is a burlesque dancer and leader of Feather Phase Out, a campaign to replace real feathers with faux in burlesque and...

Mario Fabbri is a charismatic and brilliant, young, vegan chef who is the host of Trying Vegan with Mario, a 22-episode, plant-based cooking series now streaming on UnchainedTV. Mario - who has 60K IG followers @MarioFabbriChef - brings on a series of top vegan chefs, like Lauren Toyota, and top vegan doctors, like Dr. Joel Fuhrman, to whip up succulent dishes that look decadent but are packed wit...

Victory for Vegans! Dr. Sailesh Rao, founder of Climate Healers, reveals how he and his team of fellow vegans won the recent Oxford Union debate against meat eaters. After a fierce back and forth, Oxford Union members sided with the motion "This House Would Go Vegan." This is a huge victory as this debate club is a prestigious platform run by students at Oxford University, one of the world's top u...

Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all injustice as she discusses her captivating and thought-provoking new book, How To End Injustice Everywhere. Joy also tackles the issue of infighting within the animal rights movement and how to evolve beyond it! Please join UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell for this important conversation with this best-selling author and internationally recog...

REAKING LIVE: Historic win for animals as South Korea bans the dog meat trade, a decision expected to save the lives of millions of dogs! UnchainedTV talks to 2 people who were THERE as the game-changing vote took place and activists celebrated with tears of joy! Last Chance for Animals Founder/President Chris DeRose has just returned from South Korea and joins us LIVE, along with Jiyen Lee, Found...

https://watch.unchainedtv.com/unchainedtv-video-podcastMeet Sangita Iyer: award-winning filmmaker, author, biologist and National Geographic Explorer. This woman is on a mission: to save India's endangered elephants by preserving corridors for them to roam, restoring their habitats, and educating people to stop human elephant conflict, fostering peaceful coexistence between people and wild elephan...

Kangaroos Are NOT Shoes: That's the message hundreds of activists sent to Adidas, in a global day of action at the height of the holiday shopping season. Marching into Adidas stores, across the United States, Canada, Europe & Australia, animal activists demanded Adidas stop its involvement in the largest mass slaughter of terrestrial wildlife in the world. Led by Australia's Animal Justice Party,T...

Asha Farm Sanctuary founder Tracy Murphy speaks to UnchainedTV about her ordeal and persecution. Murphy was a New York business executive who went vegan due to her love of animals. A decade ago, she moved to a rural area north of Buffalo to start her own sanctuary, called Asha's Farm Sanctuary. Things were going wonderfully until 2 cows wandered onto her sanctuary property in the summer of 2022. M...

An all female powerhouse team reveals the secrets behind the making of The Next Girl, a groundbreaking film now streaming on UnchainedTV that goes where no movie has gone before. You can watch it here: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/jamie-s-corner/videos/the-next-girl-1 Starring Jamie Logan, written by Lisa DeCrescente and directed by Terrah Bennett Smith, The Next Girl is an example of where filmm...