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Milo Runkle is the founder, former president, and board chair of Mercy For Animals\u2014the world\u2019s largest organization dedicated to protecting farm animals and promoting plant-based eating. MFA\u2019s programs improve the lives of over one billion animals each year. He founded the organization at age 15, after an animal abuse case in his local farming community in rural Ohio.

Milo is also the co-founder of The Good Food Institute, an international organization that works to build a healthy and sustainable food system by supporting the development and adoption of plant and cell-based proteins.

Milo has worked alongside elected officials, corporate executives, farmers, and celebrities to pass legislation, raise public awareness about veganism, and implement animal welfare policy changes. Through his work with Mercy For Animals, Milo has been featured by hundreds of news outlets, including ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, CNN, USA Today, and the New York Times.

He is the author of the 2017 bestselling book Mercy For Animals: One Man\u2019s Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals.

A certified yoga teacher, daily meditator, and self-declared mycophilic, Milo\u2019s happiest moments are found walking barefoot in nature alongside his rescued mutt, Shiva.

In this episode Yoga Is Vegan's Holly Skodis and Milo Runkle discuss the following:
Escaping the energy of infighting and judgement to become a joyful vegan.
Milo\u2019s upbringing on a farm and how it lead him to found Mercy For Animals.
Conditions of slaughterhouse workers and Mercy For Animals undercover investigations
Perpetration induced PTSD
Clean meat and its future as the 2nd domestication of animals
COVID
Climate Change
The upcoming documentary Meat the Future featuring Memphis Meats
Inner Yoga Teacher Training in Bali
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield
Gaining confidence as a new yoga teacher
The inner saboteur
Power vs. Force David by David Hawkins M.D. Ph.D