Food Justice Movement
Tastes of Bri transforms Chicagoland’s food scene with dazzling vegan dishes. Cicero, Illinois, June 30th – It takes just twenty minutes to get from Chicago to Cicero, a town made famous in the roaring twenties when the legendary gangster Al Capone made the suburb his crime syndicate’s headquarters.
Chef Supreme Dow rallied dozens of vegan volunteers as he aims to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Community Vegan Meals Served in An Hour! Monday, June 24th, 2024- Los Angeles – In the heart of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, an extraordinary event unfolded as the community activist, known as Chef Supreme Dow, set out to achieve a Guinness World Record.
Four leading vegan African American women discuss the growing trend towards veganism in the African American community. Los Angeles, February 29th, 2024 — According to numerous reports and surveys, African Americans are going vegan at a higher rate than other demographic groups in the United States, and women are more likely than men to dropkick meat.
Switch4Good is campaigning for the ADD SOY Act, a bill to bring non-dairy milk into U.S. schools, and criticizes members of Congress who ignore the widespread lactose intolerance among school children. Los Angeles, December 14th, 2023 — Switch4Good, a nonprofit that seeks to alert consumers to the dangers of dairy, expressed disappointment that the House Rules Committee denied a vote on an amendment filed to the Whole Milk Bill this week to address the massive lactose intolerance among school children.
UnchainedTV does an end run around the mainstream media blackout on problems caused by Big Ag and offers plant-based solutions to tackle most of the world’s problems, from climate change to America’s health care crisis. Hollywood, California – October 3rd, 2023 – UnchainedTV, a free, plant-based streaming network founded by TV journalist and best-selling author Jane Velez-Mitchell, empowers individuals to make compassionate choices that benefit their health, animals, and the planet.
Denver’s The Easy Vegan has become the second consecutive vegan team winning the Food Network’s hit show “The Great Food Truck Race” Los Angeles, August 15th, 2023 — For two consecutive years, a team producing vegan food has won the Food Network’s hit show The Great Food Truck Race.
Nicole Derseweh, the contest winner of the 100% vegan cooking competition PEELED, is launching a Vegan Lox Brand. Los Angeles, January 27, 2023 — When you’re the contest winner of a TV show, it’s a great opportunity to use the momentum to start your dream project.
Indianapolis, Indiana, December 28 11:30pm New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, the first vegan member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced a new piece of farmed animal welfare legislation, the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA). The IAA is a bill created, in part, as a response to what critics have described as the horrific treatment of pigs, chickens, turkeys and cows during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early months of the pandemic, Covid-ridden slaughterhouses were temporarily shut down, and the USDA provided aid to livestock companies in the mass killing (referred to as “depopulation”) of millions of animals, meaning that taxpayer dollars supported these acts.
With her inspiring cooking shows, the vegan chef Charlise Rookwood, aka VeganSoulicious, is reconnecting everyone with their plant-based roots. Los Angeles, September 5th, 2022, 9am – We all have roots. We may have successfully adapted to a new life in a new land, but our roots still manifest themselves through our food preferences and habits.
The actress and filmmaker Jasmine Leyva has authored two children’s books inspiring kids to embrace plant-based food. TV producer, filmmaker, and actress Jasmine Leyva has now authored two magical children’s books to help parents and teachers channel the inner vegan in children so they can grow up healthy and companionate.