Farm Sanctuary Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food

Name: Farm Sanctuary Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food
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ISBN: 9780743291590

ISBN-10: 074329159X

ISBN-13: 9780743291590

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 11/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



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


Appendix: Resources


References


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index