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Nathan Runkle, founder of Mercy For Animals…Plus, Joan Jett!

Duncan — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:00:23 +0000

Nathan Runkle—founder and president of Mercy For Animals—recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999. He discusses Mercy For Animals’ early years and early achievements, as well as the evolution of the organization […]

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Paul Shapiro, VP Farm Animal Protection, HSUS

Duncan — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:33 +0000

Paul Shapiro—Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)—recounts his formative years as an animal lover and advocate, including launching Compassion Over Killing and how that organization’s undercover video investigations in the pre-Internet age served as an important precursor to the more sophisticated ones later undertaken by HSUS, Mercy […]

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