Food Justice Movement

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UnchainedTV Partners with SoFast to Supersize Plant-Based Video Distribution

UnchainedTV, the Premier TV Network for the Sustainable, Plant-Based Lifestyle, Partners with SoFast to Broaden Global Reach Hollywood, California, January 19th, 2025  — UnchainedTV, the groundbreaking streaming channel that delivers 24/7 content celebrating the plant-based lifestyle, proudly announces its partnership with SoFast, the leading integrator of FAST channels.

PETA protesting Starbucks Plant Based Milks surcharge
How Activists Helped Get Starbucks to Drop Its Vegan Milk Surcharge

Starbucks dropped its vegan milk surcharge in the United States and Canada after years of relentless activism from groups like PETA and Switch4Good Los Angeles November 11th, 2024 — For years, Starbucks customers who desired plant-based milk options – like soy, almond, coconut and oat milk –  faced a penalty in the form of an extra charge of up to 80 cents per drink.

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Tastes of Bri: The Midwest’s Vegan Gem

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.

Vegan Chef Supreme Dow
Chef Supreme Dow Aims for Guinness World Record with Vegan Meals

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.

African American Vegan Women
Why African American Women Are Going Vegan in Droves

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 Pushes Forward with the ADD SOY Act

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.

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UnchainedTV: 5 Reasons Why This Plant-Based Streaming Network is a Game Changer

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.

Winners The Great Food Truck Race and pig
How Vegans Won “The Great Food Truck Race” 2nd Year in a Row

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 contest winner eat live lox
Cooking Contest Winner Launches Vegan Lox Brand

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.

Vegan Senator Cory Booker
Senator Cory Booker Announces New Farmed Animal Welfare Legislation

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.