01800cam a2200253 4500 503782810 TxAuBib 20170923120000.0 170503s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780399574054 0399574050 TxAuBib Runkle, Nathan. Mercy for animals : one mans quest to inspire compassion, and improve the lives of farm animals / Nathan Runkle with Gene Stone. New York : Avery, [2017] 320 pages : photographs. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nations leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy For Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organizations work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices. But this isn't just Nathan's story. Mercy For Animals examines how our country moved from a network of small, local farms with more than 50 percent of Americans involved in agriculture to a massive coast-to-coast industrial complex controlled by a mere 1 percent of our population and the consequences of this drastic change on animals as well as our global and local environments. 20170923. Animal rights. Human-animal relationships. Animal rights activists. Stone, Gene, 1951-, author.