The Vegan Message Mainstream Media Won't Air — Jane Velez-Mitchell Exposes Everything

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Physicians Committee

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can a streaming network help change the future of food, media, and the planet?

Emmy-winning journalist and UnchainedTV founder Jane Velez-Mitchell sits down with Chuck Carroll to reveal why plant-based storytelling is exploding right now — and why mainstream media still resists the movement.

Discover how UnchainedTV grew to more than 20 million views, what FAST channels mean for the future of television, and why the meat industry launched an all-out messaging war against veganism. Jane also shares behind-the-scenes insight into new documentaries, adorable rescued pigs, celeb cooking shows, and the forgotten 1890s vegetarian movement.

If you love food, media, history, or social change… this episode will absolutely light you up.

Topics Covered:
✔ Why streaming is replacing cable and traditional TV
✔ The rise of FAST channels (free ad-supported TV)
✔ Inside the meat industry's anti-vegan messaging campaigns
✔ Why plant-based stories struggle to reach mainstream newsrooms
✔ The shocking climate impact of animal agriculture
✔ Behind the scenes of "Pig Little Lies" and "At Home with the Jenners"
✔ The surprising vegetarian movement of the 1890s
✔ How UnchainedTV helps people make compassionate, healthy transitions

📺 Watch UnchainedTV: https://unchainedtv.com

About Us
The Physicians Committee is dedicated to saving lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research. We combine the clout and expertise of more than 17,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of more than 175,000 members across the United States and around the world.

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room. Follow the money. Do you see broccoli commercials on TV? No. What you see is
0:10.4	largely fast food and pharmaceuticals. Anybody who's in the business does the math, they know
0:15.8	who's keeping the lights on. They're going to talk about ultra-processed food, which is something
0:20.4	the meat industry injected into the societal conversation. Now, They're going to talk about ultra-processed food, which is something the meat
0:20.8	industry injected into the societal conversation. Now, they're going to talk about ultra-process,
0:26.5	a bunch of peas and vegetables put together in a little patty that is completely not only harmless
0:32.6	but good for you. And they're going to ignore the fact that processed meat, which is bacon and ham and hot dogs,
0:39.9	is cancer causing? See, that is not fair reporting.
0:49.5	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:53.5	Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:58.6	Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Flagstaff, Arizona, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1:05.8	Wherever you are, we appreciate you, helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:09.7	This is episode 95 of Season 8, number 694 overall.
1:15.0	And today, I am really happy to be able to chop things up with another of my media brethren,
1:23.1	because we are really going to be talking about the future of media on the show today.
1:28.4	The future of media specifically in the health movement.
1:32.4	And my guest today, she is a true trailblazer.
1:36.0	She's an Emmy Award-winning journalist.
1:38.0	She's a passionate advocate for animals.
1:40.2	And she is the founder of Unchained TV, which, as you will hear, is a streaming platform that is
1:46.1	changing the way the world watches vegan content. And let me tell you about Unchained TV. I mean,
1:53.1	this thing is really revolutionary. It's like the Netflix for All Things Plant Base. She's got
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