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UnchainedTV Exclusive Interview! It’s the animal rights disruption making headlines across the globe. Now, for the first time, the 3 women who took over the runway at New York Fashion Week 2023, to make a statement about the cruelty of leather, speak. They reveal how and why they did it to UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell. Comic journalist, actress and vegan activist Jamie Logan jumped on the runway, as Anna Wintour and Jennifer Lopez looked on, and strutted with a sign that said Coach: Leather Kills. Right in front of her was well-known activist Sasha Monik Zemmel in body paint that resembled an animal without skin. Capturing the action on video was noted NYC activist Rachel Levy. They owned the show…until security tackled. We invite Coach or any other industry rep on at any time.

Watch out DC! The Youth Steering Committee is on the case! YSC is made up of students who are passionate about promoting climate-friendly, plant-based food to save our planet, animals, and people. These students create campaigns to change federal policies and encourage K-12 schools to adopt plant-based, sustainable menus and end factory farming. These young advocates are working to push a bill through Congress: The Healthy Future Students and Earth Pilot Program Act. The YSC was formed by Chilis on Wheels and Friends of the Earth. Eloísa Trinidad, the Executive Director of Chilis on Wheels, and 3 of the students in the Youth Steering Committee, Nitya Jakka, Nancy Zhang and Jasmine Hsieh, join us to talk about how they’re saving the planet. Learn more here: https://www.instagram.com/plantpowered.ysc/

Act now! ??The National Park Service (NPS) wants YOUR, the public's, input by Sept. 25th, on their wonderful proposed action to remove the 3-mile-long fence at Point Reyes National Seashore that keeps the Tule Elk from water access, causing the slow, gruesome deaths of hundreds of elk. ?Now, the NPS is recommending dismantling the elk fence! Yay! But, they need to know that it’s a popular proposal. The meat/dairy industry is on the other side, wanting the precious resources for their ranches. PLEASE SAY: YES, get rid of the fence! It’s quick & easy — take 3 minutes! COMMENT: I agree with your 'preferred alternative B' to remove the fence. Click here: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?documentID=131377 Speak for the Tule Elk and against the cattle/dairy industry that’s been pushing to remove the Elk. Jack Gescheidt of The Tree Spirit Project and Fleur Dawes of In Defense of Animals bring us the latest on this breaking news, life-or-death story!

Find out how PETA blew the lid off US-funded animal experiments in Colombia! That led to the shutdown of two animal laboratories! Now, U.S. representatives Dina Titus (D-NV-01) and Troy Nehls (R-TX-22) have introduced the Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act! This would bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding animal experiments in foreign laboratories. The horrific Columbian labs got $17-million in US tax dollars before authorized seized 100 monkeys and 180 mice and filed charges against the couple running the dump. The NIH doesn’t even inspect the labs they throw billions at…Yes over $2 billion in one decade to foreign labs torturing animals… including China and Russia. Help us get this law passed! Sent auto-letter to your gov reps here! It takes a second: https://support.peta.org/page/54613/action/1?locale=en-US PETA’s Lab Investigations team leaders Kathy Guillermo and Dr. Magnolia Martínez break it down for us.

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 numerous state laws that ban the sale of eggs or meat from animals kept in extreme confinement, like pig gestation crates. MFA is urging all animal lovers to reach out to your U.S. Senators and Members of Congress NOW to say VOTE NO on the EATS Act. Here is the petition link. Takes 5 seconds to do it. MFA says PLEASE FILL IT OUT NOW! CLICK THIS LINK TO PETITION: https://act.mercyforanimals.org/eats-act For more info and to get involved visit: https://mercyforanimals.org/

#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. This is the first graphic nonfiction book about the animal personhood movement. Sam and Cynthia are the-husband-and-wife team behind the cartoon, I Got This.” Their editorial cartoons have been found in the Guardian, The New Republic and Redbook. Buy here: https://www.amazon.com/Thing-Inside-Struggle-Animal-Personhood-ebook/dp/B0C1W53MRJ

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 Jane Velez-Mitchell conducts this fascinating interview.

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 more than 250 articles at JewishVeg.org/schwartz. He is President Emeritus of Jewish Veg (www.JewishVeg.org); President, Society Of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV): And associate producer of A SACRED DUTY (www.JewishVeg.org/ASacredDuty). UnchainedTV founder Jane Velez-Mitchell conducts the interview.

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 to the scientists who conducted the study and answer your questions! Here’s the study itself. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.525405v1 Also, millions of dogs are lost around the nation and the world every year. Many end up hit by cars, dying of starvation or being euthanized, a tragedy for them and their devastated human family members. Now, a new tag called GPC Smart aims to SCAN, IDENTIFY and REUNITE lost pets with their human companions. Their motto is: BRING YOUR PET HOME. Find out all about it! Learn more here: https://gpcsmart.com/ & Browse other UnchainedTV content. It's all FREE! Download the UnchainedTV APP on your phone and on your TV via Amazon Fire Stick, Roku device & AppleTV device. Soon to be on all Samsung Smart TVs. Watch online here: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/browse

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, troubling, and disturbing.” So, why are they being punished for showing the truth? UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts this compelling panel discussion.

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, nonprofit research organization Faunalytics has just surveyed thousands of Americans about how likely they would be to try a number of pro-animal actions, such as giving up meat or buying cruelty-free products. The results are fascinating and will help animal advocates tailor specific “asks” to the most receptive groups. Lori Amos talks about Eat Differently and Zach Wulderk brings us the Faunalytics findings. For more: https://faunalytics.org/

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 Outlook’s Exec Director Cheryl Leahy also talks to UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell about why they are seeking criminal charges and why she believes this abuse is not exceptional but systemic. The companies involved are invited on UnchainedTV to respond. For more, visit https://animaloutlook.org/

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 petition NOW here: https://ladyfreethinker.org/stop-cruel-transport-dog-meat-sumatra/ Learn more about Lady Freethinker here: https://ladyfreethinker.org/ Who exactly is Lady Freethinker and what makes her tick? Watch this episode and find out!

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, troubling, and disturbing.” So, why are they being punished for blowing the whistle? UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts this compelling panel discussion.

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 Robbins meets people wherever they are on their personal journey with food, helping make small improvements that lead to big results. For more, visit www.oceanrobbins.com.

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 whose daring escapade saved a life and got them one of the wildest weddings in history! UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell conducts the interview.

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_eubanks, Carol J. Adams of @cja_from_dallas, and others, this book is a game-changer. UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell interviews Hope Bohanec, Executive Director, @CompassionateLiving.

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 Animal Rights (VFAR). It would mean “Happy” the elephant, held alone in the Bronx Zoo, would be freed to a sanctuary.