Plant Perfect's line of vegan salad dressings are darn so good, I couldn't stop myself from gobbling up the samples before this show, exclaimed JaneUnChained host Jane Velez-Mitchell. The dynamic Mark Garrison, and his team, have whipped up an array of vegan salad dressings that are shelf-stable, zero cholesterol, free of any palm oil, non-GMO and absolutely delicious! These salad dressings are available at Whole Foods. Plant Perfect also has a vegan mayonnaise that will rock your world. And, coming soon, Plant Perfect's new line of vegan butter! How does Mark do it? Find out as Jane chats up this plant-based powerhouse for the hour! To learn more about these products, visit https://eatplantperfect.com

As the vegan movement explodes on the world stage, how can anyone keep up with everything that's happening? Enter Vegevents.com. VegEvents bills itself as the world's largest vegan event calendar. The website has over 1,000 vegan events around the world listed at any given time. Before the pandemic, there were over 3,000 events at any given time. And, every week, 3,400 people around the world receive an email specific to them with vegan events near them or online. The website is built in such a way that vegan events are automatically pulled in from hundreds of Meetup.com groups, Eventbrite hosts, and websites with exportable calendars. And events are also submitted directly by vegan event organizers. Now, meet the brilliant mind behind this extraordinary resource... Jason Schramm.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the world's richest and most influential businessmen, recently made headlines by declaring that rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef because of the cattle industry's impact on climate change. Now that the establishment has begun acknowledging what vegans have shouted from the rooftops for years, it's fair to ask: how do we accomplish this? Answer: make delicious plant-based meats. Enter Hungry Planet. This company declares it's on a mission to bend the curve on personal and planetary health with the only full range of delicious, nourishing, plant-based meats. The company, hungryplanetfoods.com, makes it easy for consumers to switch to plant-based meat, including plant-based iterations of pork, chicken, beef and sausage, without any compromise in taste. Now, meet the movers and shakers behind this amazing culinary adventure!

Veganism is skyrocketing. More and more Americans are identifying themselves as plant-based. Reports from publications, like The Beet, say veganism is growing fastest in the African-American community! Today, we’re talking to powerful leaders of that movement who are involved in the Veguary campaign. Veguary is a FREE month-long pledge campaign encouraging people to commit to vegan living during the month of February.  “This campaign is purposefully situated in the month of February - Black History Month in the United States - to highlight the contributions of Black trailblazers, and the many benefits of vegan living in communities of color.” To learn more visit afrovegansociety.org/veguary.

“‘Ethical veganism’ is a protected class akin to religion in the U.K. after a landmark ruling.” So blared a headline in the Washington Post. Now, meet the man who made that happen! Jordi Casamitjana argued that he was fired from his job at an animal rights organization after telling colleagues that the group’s pension funds invested in companies that experiment on animals. The United Kingdom’s Equality Act says, in order to be covered as a protected class, the belief must be “genuinely held; be a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available; be a belief as to a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behavior; attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance; and be worthy of respect in a democratic society, compatible with human dignity and not conflict with the fundamental rights of others.” Well, that certainly defines veganism. JaneUnChained.com founder Jane Velez-Mitchell interviews Jordi.

Our food system, our health care system, our national response to the pandemic, and our battle against climate change. It's all in shambles. Why? Because we fail to address the root cause of each one of these problems. That root cause is modern-day, industrialized animal agriculture. It is literally destroying our planet. We're in a pandemic brought on by a zoonotic illness, meaning it jumped from animals to humans. Yet few speak of how to prevent the next pandemic, which could come from a concentrated animal feeding operation for poultry, pigs or cows, where animals are kept in cramped, unsanitary conditions and pumped with antibiotics. Now, Dr. Sailesh Rao, systems analyst and founder of ClimateHealters.org, talks to us about how we can all be part of the solution and bring about the greatest transformation in human history: evolving beyond killing. Please listen to this brilliant engineer and his solution to the biggest problems plaguing humankind.

Former Pittsburgh Steeler Weslye Saunders talks plant-based health with Better Food Foundation’s Laura Cascada! Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts. DefaultVeg is the simple idea of reframing what we think of as normal to plant-based foods. This strategy, which is simply setting the default to be the plant-based option instead of the other way around, has been adopted by 50+ institutions from Harvard Sustainability to the American Lung Association to reduce their environmental footprints. Now, DefaultVeg has a campaign featuring rapper Grey, actor Jillian Rose Reed, former NFL player Weslye Saunders, famed race car driver Leilani Munter, and TV host Stephanie Gerard encouraging folks to start a more resilient default with their holiday meals. For more, visit: betterfoodfoundation.org

What would Jesus say about modern-day, industrialized animal agriculture, where 60,000 hens are crammed into a giant windowless warehouse, where baby calves are ripped from their bellowing mothers, where chickens are debeaked, where tails are sliced off because they just get in the way? Here's another question. What's it like to be a vegan minister in a time of such massive, yet widely accepted, cruelty? That's the question we address in this broadcast as we speak with a modern reverend who is also a vegan. Now, meet Reverend Sarah Bowen for a life-changing discussion.

White Coat Waste is a powerhouse advocate for animals in our nation's capital, focusing on ending unnecessary, wasteful, and horrifically cruel experiments on animals that are taxpayer-funded. The organization has had a lot of success exposing how absurd most of these experiments are. From constipation to cannibalism, the excuses these pseudo-scientists use to subject animals to extreme suffering would be laughable... except that the torture these animals endure is tragic. If an individual did to one animal what these fake scientists do to thousands, they'd be arrested on animal cruelty charges. We're talking about agencies like the Veterans Administration, National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, to name a few. Now, learn about how this organization is speaking truth to power, while exposing and ending these barbaric practices. Visit whitecoatwaste.org to get involved.

BeVeg is the world’s leading vegan certification company, founded and led by prominent attorney Carissa Kranz, today's interview subject. The BeVeg vegan standard is the benchmark for vegan assurance, giving you the confidence you need to access new markets and establish new business that meets vegan consumer expectations. BeVeg is ISO accredited and recognized by the world accreditation community for its vegan standard. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization that develops and publishes international standards. As the world’s leading vegan verification and certification firm, BeVeg ensures the quality and quantity of products conform to the internationally recognized vegan standards in scope. They research, inspect, verify, and analyze through ingredient research, supply chain investigation, surveillance sampling, on-site inspections, lab testing, and follow up as dictated by findings to ensure conformity.