Farm Sanctuary president, CEO and co-founder Gene Baur has been a pioneer in animal welfare since the 1980s in raising awareness about the harmful treatment of animals in the factory farm industry.

Gene Baur carries a turkey to a Farm Sanctuary truck in the late '80s in western Maryland. Farm Sanctuary A turkey munches on a Thanksgiving meal at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York, in 2019.

Gene Baur is the President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary and has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. Since the mid-1980s, Gene has worked to end factory ...

No one could have predicted that Gene Baur, who started out as an occasional actor, would become a pioneer of the vegan movement.“Like everyone around me, I grew up eating meat, dairy and eggs ...

Gene Baur grew up in Hollywood, California and worked in television, film and commercials, including some for McDonald's and other fast food restaurants. Today, he campaigns to raise awareness about ...

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Farm Sanctuary cofounder Gene Baur reminisced recently on the evolution of plant-based meats that has led Burger King and other restaurant chains to put more vegan burgers on the menu.

Activist Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, has devoted himself to raising awareness of the health and environmental perils of factory farming. And he says more people are ...

When Gene Baur co-founded Farm Sanctuary in 1986, he could hardly have imagined that it would become the world's premiere refuge for farm animals, with outposts in New York and California offering ...