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Farm Sanctuary Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food

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ISBN-10: 0743291581

ISBN-13: 9780743291583

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gene Baur

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Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within the confines of a peaceful family farm, arriving as food for humans only at the end of their sun-drenched lives. That's what Gene Baur had been told -- but when he first visited a stockyard he realized that this rosy depiction couldn't be more inaccurate. Amid the stench, noise, and filth, his attention was drawn in particular to one sheep who had been cast aside for dead. But as Baur walked…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.75" wide x 6.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Gene Bauris 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.…    

Introduction: Opening the Gate
From the Ground Up
The Road to Lancaster
Saving Hilda
Mad Cows and Washington
Watkins Glen
California, Here We Come
Get Big or Get Out
What's Wrong with the Factory Farm Today
The Real Deal on Veal
How Now Milk Cow?
It's Not Wilbur's Farm Anymore
The Pecking Disorder
Unnatural Disasters
On Their Behalf-and Ours
In the Eyes of the Law
Beneath the Skin
Epilogue: Finding Sanctuary
Resources
References
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index