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Gene Baur

Gene Baur

Gene Baur is co‑founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America’s leading farm animal protection organization. Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. For 25 years he has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming. He is the author of Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food and Living the Farm Sanctuary Life. Find him on Instagram and Facebook.

All Contributions from Gene Baur (2)

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    How the Livestock Industry Endangers Biodiversity, and Why It Matters

    The following is an excerpt from Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, which was just released by Rodale Books. Possibly the most chilling effect of the livestock industry is how it alters our planet in ways that change its composition forever. Duncan Williamson, food policy manager at the World Wildlife Fund, UK, estimates that approximately 30 […]
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    Back to the Heart: Restoring Our Relationship to Our Fellow Creatures

    When Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986, there was little awareness of the highly destructive effects of factory farming. I wanted to see for myself what was happening, so I spent years visiting farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses, undercover, to document the conditions at these operations. What I found was living animals discarded like garbage, thrown into trash cans […]
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