Episodes

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!

SB 1249 (Galgiani) Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act SB 1249 would make it unlawful for any cosmetic manufacturer to knowingly import or sell any cosmetic, including personal hygiene products such as deodorant, shampoo, or conditioner, in California if the final product or any component of the product was tested on animals after Jan. 1, 2020

Elysabeth Alfano is a social media influencer who is determined to save the earth from the approaching calamity being brought on by animal agriculture! Her Awesome Vegans vlog/podcast showcases leaders in the animal rights/vegan movement and the delicious, nutritious plant-based food that is the solution to most of the world's problems: human illness, climate change, pollution, violence... the list goes on and on. Join us. One simple shift, to a non-violent lifestyle, can save us all. Peace begi...

Happy Cow is arguably among the biggest vegan food apps in the world. From Texas to Austria and beyond, it is the app you click to find the nearest vegan-vegetarian restaurants, supermarkets and stores nearest to you! With the vegan food sector exploding, HappyCow.net and the Happy Cow app form an amazing tool to provide people with compassionate options wherever they are. We speak to one of the founders, Ken Spector, about the extraordinary growth of the Happy Cow app and what it means for huma...

Social Compassion in Legislation has a bill in the California Assembly that would ban cosmetics that are tested on animals from being sold in California! This is game changing as California is the world's 5th largest economy! The bill has already passed the California Senate. It is so close to passage. Now, the big cosmetics companies have just hired lobbyists to try and kill the bill. SCIL President Judie Mancuso explains what's at stake and how animal lovers everywhere can help fight the lobby...

The Daring Vegan was a meat eater until recently. She had a lightbulb moment and is now a leading voice advocating a plant-based diet for health, the environment and the animals. Dani Rukin, the Daring Vegan, discusses her evolution/transformation and her strategies for waking people up to the horrors of modern day animal agriculture!

Erin Janus is a social media star whose video, explaining the horrors of dairy production has gone viral, inspiring many people to give up dairy and go entirely vegan! Erin is currently the star of an LA billboard campaign called Dairy is Scary featuring her face on 60 billboards around Southern California!