Jane Velez-Mitchell
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Jane Velez-Mitchell is a television journalist and author. For six years she hosted her own show on HLN, Jane Velez-Mitchellreplacing Glenn Beck, who moved to Fox News Channel. She is often seen commenting on high-profile cases for CNN, TruTV, E! and other national cable TV shows. Velez-Mitchell frequently guest hosts for Nancy Grace on her Headline News show. Velez-Mitchell reported for the nationally syndicated show Celebrity Justice. She also appears as a substitute host on HLN's Showbiz Tonight. In October...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.
The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms.
We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.
The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.
Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.
Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.