Gene Baur

Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, has been hailed as the conscience of the food movement by Time magazine. Since the mid-1980s, Gene has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our system of cheap food production. His book, “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food” (2008), a national bestseller, is a thought-provoking investigation of the ethical questions surrounding beef, poultry, pork, milk, and egg production. It describes what each of us can do to promote compassion and help stop the systematic mistreatment of the billions of farm animals who are exploited for food in the United States every year.