Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

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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 by, the sheep raised her head and looked right at him. She was still alive, and the one thing Baur knew for sure that day was that he had to get her to safety. Hilda, as she was later named, was nursed back to health and soon became the first resident of Farm Sanctuary -- an organization dedicated to the rescue, care, and protection of farm animals.

The truth is that farm production does not depend on the family farmer with a small herd of animals but instead resembles a large, assembly-line factory. Animals raised for human consumption are confined for the entirety of their lives and often live without companionship, fresh air, or even adequate food and water.Viewed as production units rather than living beings with feelings, ten billion farm animals are exploited specifically for food in the United States every year.

In Farm Sanctuary, Baur provides a thoughtprovoking investigation of the ethical questions involved in the production of beef, poultry, pork, milk,and eggs -- and what each of us can do to stop the mistreatment of farm animals and promote compassion. He details the triumphs and the disappointments of more than twenty years on the front lines of the animal protection movement. And he introduces sanctuary. us to some of the special creatures who live at Farm Sanctuary -- from Maya the cow to Marmalade the chicken -- all of whom escaped horrible circumstances to live happier, more peaceful lives. Farm Sanctuary shows how all of us have an opportunity and a responsibility to consume a kinder plate, making a better life for ourselves and animals as well. You will certainly never think of a hamburger or chicken breast the same way after reading this book.

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This is a genuine account of a one who has seen the inside of the meat, dairy, and egg industries. If you have ever wondered where meat actually comes from.If you loved Wilbur in Charlotte's Web, and hope that all farmed animals are treated humanely.If you care about things like climate change, water pollution, avian flu, and health.If any of these "if"s strike you, read the book. It is nothing short of inspiring. As one of the chapters in the book says, it's not Wilbur's farm anymore.What you will also find is the story of what happens when you build a place where a tiny fraction of these animals can go to fulfill their inherent desire to live. What you will find is a story of a man who cared enough to rescue a sheep left for dead, and from there, became one of the front runners of a movement. No extreme, shock-oriented schemes here.

This book shows so much compassion and love and what we can do to change the cruel treatment of animals and it gives a history of how factory farming began and ended up the way it is today. You must read this book if you love animals and for those who don't I wish you would read it because you would change your mind.

Just read this brilliant book to be opened in heart and mind to the plight of farm animals.

And as a tax payer I think a person should also know the waste of tax dollars that go to support commercial meat, milk, egg operations. But. no commercially raised fowl that I know of is raised in a true, free range manner. Gene Baur's book should be read because if you are a meat, milk, egg eater you really should know how animals are raised in modern American and how this can effect your health, local water supply and the air you breathe. I am not commenting on the whole issue of meat or non meat eating, since I wanted to concentrate of giving a review that touches on issues that so many consumers fail to think about.And that's why I loved this book. Yes, I eat their eggs which are laid in clean nests with fresh straw. Now.I have six hens who are my girls as I call them. They have full run of a half acre of land.

This book offers reality and good storytelling to bring awareness that our animal farming practices are not acceptable to Americans. Animal abuse and pain are an unacceptable link in our food chain. 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.