Gene Baur is the president and cofounder of the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, Farm Sanctuary, which advocates the fair treatment of farm animals, a return to the roots of agriculture, and the end of animals' suffering for our consumption. Since 1986 his organization has not only helped to enact groundbreaking laws and policies to help prevent sick and diseased animals from ending up on our menus but has also rescued sick, abandoned, and abused animals from farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses across the country. Baur and his colleagues provide, on farms in New York and California, a safe home and a healthful life for animals who are in desperate need of rescue. Please visit Farm Sanctuary's website at www.farmsanctuary.org.
"In Farm Sanctuary Gene Baur highlights the appalling conditions
billions of animals are forced to endure in factory farms -- in
order to produce more meat more cheaply in the shortest possible
time. His descriptions of the courageous battles fought by many
individuals to end such practices are touching. Filled with hope,
this book is written for all who strive for a more compassionate
world -- I highly recommend it." -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder
of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
"Starting in the 1980s, Gene rescued neglected, abused, and injured
animals from the appalling, disgusting conditions at auctions and
stockyards. Meet in this insightful book the fascinating animals he
saved." -- Dr. Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
"I have always admired the tremendous work of Farm Sanctuary. Farm
animals need our ethical consideration, and Farm Sanctuary has
played a central role in getting the issue of their plight on the
national agenda." -- Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of
the United States
"A beautiful and stirring book, as filled with the spirit of mercy
as the place that inspired it." -- Matthew Scully, author of
Dominion
"Farm animals couldn't ask for a better advocate than Gene Baur."
-- Rory Freedman, coauthor of Skinny Bitch
"The factory-farming industries do their best to keep people from
knowing the truth about how meat, eggs, and dairy are produced.
Gene and Farm Sanctuary deserve high praise for working so hard to
educate the public and make the world a more compassionate and
humane place." -- Moby
"Factory farms subvert democracy and are some of the nation's worst
polluters. This book shows how they also treat animals with
unspeakable cruelty. Farm Sanctuary is a compelling testament to
the need to civilize this industry and end its radical practices
for producing meat, dairy, and eggs." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In 1986, after rescuing a live sheep from a pile of dead animals in a stockyard, the author founded Farm Sanctuary, an organization that rescues discarded living animals from stockyards, slaughterhouses and factory farms; provides shelters for them; and advocates for humane animal treatment. In this impassioned book, Baur paints an appealing picture of these shelters and the animals that live there far from the brutality of industrial farming, which he describes in detail. Some of this inhumane treatment is not news-chickens packed into tiny cages-but accounts of living animals discarded like garbage because they are ill or weak surprise. Baur's nonprofit promotes legal remedies to stop the inhumane conditions chronicled. He believes that the best way to demonstrate concern for industrially farmed animals is to adopt a vegan lifestyle, but doesn't proselytize. Rather, he makes a strong case that meat eaters have an ethical responsibility to ensure that the animals they eat have not been abused. His well-argued book includes helpful lists of resources and organizations that deal with factory farming, animal welfare rights, humane food production and the environment. 18 b&w photos. (Mar.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
"A beautiful and stirring book, as filled with the spirit of mercy
as the place that inspired it." -- Matthew Scully, author of
Dominion
"Factory farms subvert democracy and are some of the nation's worst
polluters. This book shows how they also treat animals with
unspeakable cruelty. Farm Sanctuary is a compelling
testament to the need to civilize this industry and end its radical
practices for producing meat, dairy, and eggs." -- Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.
"Farm animals couldn't ask for a better advocate than Gene Baur."
-- Rory Freedman, coauthor of Skinny Bitch
"In Farm Sanctuary Gene Baur highlights the appalling
conditions billions of animals are forced to endure in factory
farms -- in order to produce more meat more cheaply in the shortest
possible time. His descriptions of the courageous battles fought by
many individuals to end such practices are touching. Filled with
hope, this book is written for all who strive for a more
compassionate world -- I highly recommend it." -- Dr. Jane Goodall,
DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of
Peace
"Starting in the 1980s, Gene rescued neglected, abused, and injured
animals from the appalling, disgusting conditions at auctions and
stockyards. Meet in this insightful book the fascinating animals he
saved." -- Dr. Temple Grandin, author of Animals in
Translation
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