Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Mary Ann Sullivan, and I am truly thrilled today to welcome the legendary

kudo, aka Richard Kudo, and those are spelled differently, of the animal recovery mission or

arm to our hen house. And he came to animal protection from a somewhat unusual background, I think,

as he founded Arm in 2010, after I see in your bio retiring from Miami Beach real estate development.

Now his undercover investigative work is legendary and known for exposing some of the most violent

animal abuse operations worldwide, resulting in over a thousand felony prosecutions,

including his very well-known investigation of ferrelight dairy farms and a lot of illegal

slaughterhouses fighting operations. I did warn him not to get into too many

gruesome details, but he lives with the gruesome details. So the work he's doing is just

incredibly valuable. Before I get to that, I just want to remind you, for those of you who don't

know, our headhouse now has four podcasts. Rising Anxieties comes out on Tuesdays, the Hen Report on Thursdays, and the long-form interview, which is what we're in now, on most Fridays, the Adable Law podcast on the last Friday of the month. And, of course, we're on YouTube. Please subscribe and like. But now, let's get to this interview because I have really a lot of questions. Welcome, Kudo.

Thank you so much. And yes, I'll keep it light. We do some violent operations. I'll keep it on the

downward a little bit. I think it's an ongoing problem with anybody interested in what's going on

with animals. And one of the reasons I think that people don't know about it is because they can't

bear to know about it, which is ridiculous. All right, but let's just take a step back for those who aren't familiar

you with Arm. Can you just briefly tell us your mission and then we can get into the details?

Yeah, you know, at first our mission was just basically horse-oriented and illegal horse slaughter

in the greater Florida and Miami area. And then we opened our eyes a bit wider and widened our scope to basically dealing with the issues that no one else will deal with, whether it's private groups, governments. And if they are being dealt with, we will deal with them such as factory farm investigations,

but just put a different spin on it.

So we do pride ourselves on doing anything and everything a little bit differently to get a better result and a different result for the animals.

Well, you have been getting great results.

One of the things you're really good at is getting some good press.

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