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Farm sanctuary changing hearts and minds about animals and food

Farm Sanctuary is an organization that rescues discarded living animals from stockyards, slaughterhouses and factory farms, provides shelters for them, and advocates for humane animal treatment. In this impassioned book, Baur paints an appealing picture of these shelters and the animals that live th...

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Main Author: Baur, Gene.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Touchstone Books, 2008.
Edition: 1st Touchstone trade paperback ed.
Subjects:
Factory farms > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal industry > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal rights.
Food processing plants.
Summary: Farm Sanctuary is an organization that rescues discarded living animals from stockyards, slaughterhouses and factory farms, provides shelters for them, and advocates for humane animal treatment. In this impassioned book, Baur paints an appealing picture of these shelters and the animals that live there far from the brutality of industrial farming, which he describes in detail. He makes a strong case that meat eaters have an ethical responsibility to ensure that the animals they eat have not been abused.
Item Description: "Reading group guide inside" --Cover.
Physical Description: xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780743291590
074329159X
Author Notes: Gene Baur is 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. Please visit Farm Sanctuary's website at www.farmsanctuary.org.

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