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.HOST:
 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.
Runkle(m): 
 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. 
For more details on Mercy For 
Animals,
please visit
www.MercyForAnimals.org  or  
www.ChooseVeg.com