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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
Nathan Runkle, Founder of Mercy For Animals - P1/2
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The images
in the following program
are very sensitive
and may be
as disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However,
we have to show the truth
about cruelty to animals.
Respected viewers,
on this week’s edition
of Stop Animal Cruelty,
we meet Nathan Runkle,
the courageous
vegan founder
and executive director
of Mercy For Animals,
a non-profit
animal advocacy group
based in Chicago, USA.
The organization
conducts sustained
community outreach efforts
and effective
advertising campaigns
to inform people
of the exploitation and
torture of farm animals
and why we must switch
to a plant-based diet.
Mercy For Animals
also performs
undercover investigations
of factory farms in the US
to bring to light
the unfathomable
barbarism and violence
that occurs in the meat,
dairy and egg industries
on a daily basis.
We focus on protecting
farmed animals
because this is the area
of animal abuse
in our society where
the largest number
of animals are killed
and exploited.
Over nine billion cows,
pigs and chickens
in the United States are
killed for food every year.
If we look at the global level
we’re talking about
over 50 billion
farmed animals!
And each one of
these animals are
unique individuals with
their own personalities
and needs and interests.
So Mercy For Animals
sets out
to expose the cruelty
that’s taking place
in factory farms
and in slaughterhouses
and inspire consumers
to adopt a healthy
and compassionate
plant based diet.
Why did Nathan Runkle
decide to
make safeguarding
our animal co-inhabitants
his life’s work?
I was actually raised on
a farm in rural Ohio (USA)
and always had
a natural affinity
for animals.
I always cared deeply
about their protection
and I witnessed
a lot of animal abuse
growing up and that
always felt wrong to me.
When I was 11 years old,
I came across information
by a local animal
protection organization
that opened
my heart and my eyes
to animal cruelty issues
on a broader scheme
and taught me
about factory farming
or the industrial animal
agriculture systems that
are used in this country
and across the world
where animals are kept
in tiny cages and
stalls and pens, so small
that they oftentimes
can’t even turn around,
and they can’t
extend their own limbs.
I learned about
the harsh realities
of slaughterhouses
and at that young age
I felt that this cruelty
was not something
that I wanted to support.
It wasn’t something
that I wanted to
take place in my name and
I became a vegetarian
at that young age.
And then we formed
Mercy For Animals
a few years later.
So how old were you when
you actually started it?
I was 15 years old
when we formed
Mercy For Animals.
I saw a need
for an organization
in our local community
to work on behalf
of farmed animals,
these animals
being so abused,
so intensively confined,
having basically no
legal protection from some
of the harshest abuses.
We set out to give
these animals a voice
and have grown to a
national force since then.
There is a reason
why factory farms
and slaughterhouses
keep tight security and
do not allow outsiders
to view what goes on
within their walls.
If people were
to see the mass murder
and obscene torment of
innocent beings occurring
inside, the consumption
of animal products
would quickly end.
Really backbone
to the advocacy work
that we do on behalf
of farmed animals is
undercover investigations,
inside of factory farms,
hatcheries,
and slaughterhouses.
And our investigators go in
and they serve as
the eyes and the ears for
all of us, every consumer.
They go in, they work
side by side with people
in these factory farms
and slaughterhouses
for months on end; they
risk their personal safety,
they give up everything
that they know,
they go in wired
with hidden cameras
and they document
case after case of
routine and systematic
animal cruelty and neglect
in these facilities.
We have entered seven
of the largest egg farms
in the United States
from coast to coast,
and every single time
without exception
our investigators find
just appalling abuse.
We’ve been inside
of the world’s
largest hatchery
and inside of
poultry slaughterhouses.
Inside of these egg farms
our investigators document
the standard confinement
of these birds,
which consist of cages
stacked in tiers,
lined up in rows, in huge
windowless warehouses,
where up to 200,000 birds
are kept in wire cages
that are about the size
of a folded newspaper.
And anywhere
from five to seven birds
are crammed
into these cages.
They can’t
fully spread their wings,
they can’t walk,
they can’t perch,
they can’t dust bathe,
they can’t engage in
the most natural behaviors.
And these birds
as a result,
they lose their feathers,
and they get injuries
and infections.
Their lives are just filled
with the most
harsh treatment
and exploitation that
any of us could imagine.
When they’re about
two years old they’re
ripped out of their cages
and they’re
literally thrown into
metal kill carts, which
are then filled with gas
and the birds are killed.
This is the reality of
modern egg production.
This is how
95% of egg laying hens
live and die.
On the front end
of the egg industry
the male chicks which hatch
are considered useless.
So what happens
in the United States
every single year
is that over 200 million
male chicks
are disposed of.
They’re either thrown
away into trash cans
while they’re still alive,
or as we documented
at the world’s
largest hatchery,
these male chicks
are thrown alive
into grinding machines.
When Stop Animal Cruelty
returns, we will continue
our discussion with
Nathan Runkle, founder
and executive director
of Mercy For Animals.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
This is Stop Animal Cruelty
on Supreme Master
Television,
featuring an interview
with Nathan Runkle,
the vegan founder
and executive director
of Mercy For Animals,
a non-profit
animal rights group
based in Chicago, USA.
The organization
was founded in 1999 and
has over 35,000 members
and supporters.
So what has been
the public response
to your work?
People are really kept
largely in the dark
on where
their food comes from,
and that is intentional.
The meat and the dairy
and the egg industries
spend hundreds
of millions of dollars
every year
to convince consumers
that farmed animals
live happy lives out
in open pastures
and they come back
to the big red barn.
But that’s not the case.
The vast majority
of farmed animals
are intensively confined
on factory farms, where
they’re unable to move,
turn around,
and they’re mutilated
without painkillers.
And when people
find out the harsh reality
of these systems
and the fact that
cows, pigs and chickens
are being treated
as little more
than production units
and commodities, not as
the sentient individuals
capable of feeling pain
that they are, people feel
like they’ve been misled
by the meat, dairy
and egg industries.
And the more
that people learn
about these industries
the more they see
that the treatment that
these animals endure
is unacceptable
and it runs against
their most basic needs,
and that most people,
I believe,
are good at heart and
they’re compassionate
and we’re seeing really
a groundswell of people
that are starting
to reject these industries.
The imprisoned animals
are raised under
nightmarish conditions,
with every aspect of
their growth controlled
in order to
maximize profits,
without a thought given
to their desperate cries
that fill the air
asking for mercy.
In many regards
these are almost
“Frankenstein” animals
of what they once were
because they’ve been
genetically manipulated,
they’ve had
their feed manipulated,
their lighting manipulated,
and many of them
are injected
with growth hormones.
So we now see
our broiler chickens
or meat type birds,
going to slaughter when
they’re only 45 days old.
And these birds
have been bred to grow
so large and so fast
they are victims
of their own bodies.
They have
crippling leg deformities.
They have problems
breathing.
Many of them
have heart attacks.
Some studies say that
90% of these birds have
problems even walking.
You look at turkeys,
they suffer the same sort
of problems to the extent
that they can’t even
reproduce naturally.
All of them have to be
artificially inseminated.
Pigs are
artificially inseminated,
dairy cows are
artificially inseminated
and these animals endure
those cycles over and
over and over again until
their bodies can’t take it
and they’re slaughtered.
In 2007,
Mercy For Animals
conducted an
undercover investigation
of the seventh largest
turkey slaughterhouse
in the USA.
What they found
was beyond shocking.
Our investigator gained
employment at the facility
and worked on the
“live hang deck,” which
is where trucks come in
with the birds in crates.
They come from
the turkey farms where
they live in huge sheds
packed wing to wing,
living in their own feces
in these huge windowless
warehouses oftentimes.
And what he documented
is they arrive at this
facility and the workers
take these
frightened birds who are
flailing and screaming,
rip them out by their legs
and snap them
by their fragile limbs into
these moving shackles
which take the birds
upside down, fully
conscious, and still alive
through a process.
And the first stage after
they’ve been slapped
into these moving shackles
is their heads are taken
through a pool
of electrified water.
And what this water does
is it paralyzes the birds
temporarily
so that they can’t move
and then a rotating blade
slits their throat.
And the investigation
found these birds
flailing about, blood
all over their feathers,
and this form of slaughter
is standard.
This is how
the eight billion or more
chickens in this country
and the over 200 million
turkeys in this country
are killed
every single year.
So that’s the day to day
operations at this facility,
subjecting these birds
to enormous cruelty.
One of the problems
with this slaughter system
is that some of these birds
will go into the scalding
hot feather removal tanks
of water while
they’re still conscious
because their throats
either weren’t slit at all or
the birds hadn’t bled out
or they weren’t dead yet
by the time they reached
these tanks of water.
So some of these birds
go into the water
while they’re still alive.
We all have the power to
end the horrendous scenes
we have seen today
that are representative
of what is occurring
all across the world.
Please choose to follow
a compassionate
organic vegan diet
as it ensures
that animals are spared
from being brutalized,
exploited and
violently killed for food.
Our deep appreciation
goes to Nathan Runkle
for being a true hero
and standing up on behalf
of our animal friends.
May all animals on Earth
soon enjoy free and
beautiful lives as a result
of the efforts of groups
like Mercy For Animals
and individuals adopting
the plant-based lifestyle.
For more details on
Mercy For Animals,
please visit
www.MercyForAnimals.org
or
www.ChooseVeg.com
Thank you
for being with us
on today’s program.
Please join us
next Tuesday on
Stop Animal Cruelty
for Part 2 of our interview
with Nathan Runkle.
Coming up next is
Enlightening Entertainment,
after Noteworthy News.
May all life always be
protected and cherished
and receive
the blessings of Heaven.
There are several stories
of how animals
have communicated.
Probably one of the
first things that I heard,
other than my first mare,
was some chickens about
two days after I started
communicating.
Besides being
a gifted telepathic
animal communicator,
Ms. Holly Davis also
has expertise in the field
of Zoopharmacognosy
or the study of animals
self-selecting and
using specific plants
with medicinal properties
for treatment of
their health conditions.
I've primarily
been working with it
with my own horses.
I've been working
with them for about
two years now.
And we've been making
some really
good headway with it.
Please watch
“Soul to Soul: Telepathic
Animal Communicator
Holly Davis –
Parts 1 and 2,”
Friday and Saturday,
May 14 and 15
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
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