Farm sanctuary
Subtitle: changing hearts and minds about animals and food
By: Gene Baur
Edition: 1st Touchstone trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Touchstone Books; Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780743291590
Subjects: Factory farms; Moral and ethical aspects; Livestock; Social aspects; Animal welfare; Ethical aspects; Livestock industry; Animal rights; Animal industry; Food processing plants
Description: 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.
Notes: "Reading group guide inside"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Opening the gate; title: Part 1: From the ground up. The road to Lancaster ; Saving Hilda ; Mad cows and Washington ; Watkins Glen ; California, here we come; title: Part 2: 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; title: Part 3: On their behalf; title: and ours. In the eyes of the law ; Beneath the skin; title: Epilogue: Finding sanctuary; title: Appendix: Resources.