Everyone should read this book. It would help make a better world.
Gene Baur is a hero! I respect him and his work, this book is educational about farm animals and their plight.
Everybody should read this book even if you are not a vegetarian. it is so enlightening.
In an era when non-human animals are so often treated as outside the realm of moral consideration, Baur is a witness to another way of treating them. This book is readable - i.
I've read countless books on animals rights and "food" production. This has to be one of my favorites.
Just read this brilliant book to be opened in heart and mind to the plight of farm animals.
Farm Santuary lifts the dark veil covering our animal food industry. It is time to stop pretending that food comes in plastic and paper containers from the grocery store.
Gene Bauer's book, Farm Sanctuary, is a powerful indictment of factory farming and opened my eyes to the depth of the problem. He's an excellent writer and a true humanitarian who has fought long and hard for his beliefs.
The very first time I visited Farm Sanctuary, I knew I had found my haven. Two years later, after interning at the New York shelter, followed by 1 1/2 years of employment there working with the animals that have a safe place thanks to Gene, I have just finished reconnecting with my initial bliss and thrill by reading this book.
Gene Baur's primary concern is the humane treatment of farmed animals. He connects the abusive cruelties resulting from factory farming, to environmental depredation and health risks to both human and farm animal populations.
This beautifully written, engaging, and compelling book tells the story of Gene Baur -- a modern-day hero and trailblazer -- and his remarkable journey of bringing light, peace, health, hope, and sanctuary to thousands of rescued farmed "animal ambassadors," the few who have been incredibly fortunate to call Farm Sanctuary home. In the telling of the founding and mission of Farm Sanctuary, Baur exposes the heart-wrenching truth about the disappearance of the American family farm and its replacement with the horrific evolution of mechanized, factory-style, farmed animal production, which has taken a devastating toll on American farmers, our land, our environment, our health, and the individual animals who suffer disgusting, unspeakable abuses at the hands of humans in the process of becoming "food.
If any book can change hearts and minds, it's this one. It comes out just as tens of millions of Americans are first learning what a "downed animal" is, and the scandal surrounding cruelty to animals in a slaughtering facility sends our federal food safety bureacracy into panic.
Amazing story, I really enjoyed this book and the story of Gene Baur.A single person can really change the life of animals and be an angel for them.
Awesome!! This book is filled with fantastic stories of animal personality.
Very readable, even for the unconvinced. More a look at our nation's developing awareness of the needs and (should-be) rights of animals that are raised for food than just a history of Farm Sanctuary.
