Nathan Runkle Biography

Nathan Runkle (born c. 1984) is an American animal rights advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Mercy For Animals. Reared on a farm in rural Ohio, Runkle has long had a deep connection with farmed animals. After a local farmed animal abuse case involving a piglet slammed headfirst into a concrete floor during an agriculture project at a nearby high school, he founded Mercy For Animals to give "food" animals a much-needed advocate in his local community.