(Niagara At Large is pleased to share the following media release with our readers from Niagara Action For Animals, Brock Animal Rights Club, Brock Critical Animal Concentration and Niagara Walk for Farm Animals.)
Come join us for a talk with Farm Sanctuary co-founder Gene Baur on Tuesday, August 9th at Brock University, Academic South Room 202.
This event is free to the public and sponsored by Niagara Action for Animals, Brock Animal Rights Club, Brock Critical Animal Studies Concentration (Critical Sociology) and Niagara Walk for Farm Animals. We look forward to seeing you there!
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and to encourage a new awareness and understanding about “farm animals.” At Farm Sanctuary, the animals are our friends, not our food.
For more information on Farm Sanctuary visit: http://farmsanctuary.org/
A biographical sketch on Gene Baur:
Gene grew up in Hollywood, California and worked in commercials for McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants. He adopted a vegan lifestyle in 1985, and today, he campaigns to raise awareness about the negative consequences of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. He lives in rural New York state and is the co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America’s leading farm animal protection organization, which runs the largest rescue and refuge network for farm animals in North America. Gene holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from California State University Northridge and a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University.
After volunteering and working with various environmental and human rights causes, Gene turned his attention to animal agriculture. He has conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses to document conditions, and his pictures and videos, exposing factory-farming cruelty, have been aired nationally and internationally, educating millions. He has testified in court and before local, state and federal legislative bodies, and has initiated groundbreaking legal enforcement and legislative action to raise awareness and prevent factory farming abuses.
He played a significant role in passing the first U.S. laws to prohibit cruel farming systems – including the Florida ban on gestation crates, the Arizona ban on veal and gestation crates, and the California and Chicago bans on foie gras. His efforts have been covered by leading news organizations, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Public Radio, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. His book, entitled Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, was published by Simon and Schuster in March, 2008 and has became a national best seller.
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