#92: Effective Animal Advocacy with Milo Runkle
Learn how to make an impact for animals from one of the greatest farmed animal advocates of our time: Milo Runkle. Milo is a longtime changemaker who founded Mercy For Animals at the age of 15. He shares his journey, experience, and advice based on his decades of experience with many different forms of advocacy and practicing effective altruism.
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Hi friends,
If you’ve ever wondered about the people who inspired us to step onto the path of plant-based living and supporting animal advocacy, you’ll want to tune into this episode! We were lucky enough to chat with one of our biggest role models: Milo Runkle.
Milo was a 5th generation farmer in rural Ohio, and yet somehow his path led him to start one of the most widely respected vegan nonprofit organizations today, Mercy For Animals.
He founded Mercy for Animals at the young age of 15, and over the last 20 years the organization has made waves encouraging people all over the world to practice more love and compassion with animals and others.
For two decades, he oversaw the organization’s growth into a leading international force in the prevention of cruelty to farmed animals and promotion of compassionate food choices and policies, and raised over $130 million to help expand farm animal protection work across the globe.
Milo has collected quite a bit of wisdom over the last two decades, and he did not hold back on sharing his best advice for anyone who wants to help animals and beyond.
If you’d like to make a big impact on our world, or are just looking for some inspiration, you'll love this episode!
Enjoy,
EPISODE SHOW NOTES
- Milo’s story of growing up in a remote area and immediately connecting with animals
- What it was like to grow up in a family of hunters, trappers, and fisherman
- The life experiences that set Milo on the path of fighting for the wellbeing of animals
- The shocking school experience that ended up connecting Milo to one of his greatest supporters
- The importance of finding a support system to help you with your mission
- How Michelle was inspired by Mercy For Animals to become vegan, start a vegan YouTube channel, and ultimately found World of Vegan.
- The early days of Mercy For Animals and how it grew from local to international over two decades
- Milo’s advice for people who have a hard time with change
- Why it’s important to listen to people who don’t agree with you
- How practicing compassion and unconditional love can help you find potential allies and partners where we might not have before
- What helped Milo to narrow the focus of the organization
- Why joy, love, and fun is at the core of the work at MFA
- Moving from talking about the WHY to the HOW when it comes to helping animals and ending factory farming
- The advice Milo has for anyone who feels lonely in their beliefs and doesn’t know where to start
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