“Agribusiness factory farms subvert democracy and are some of the nation’s worst polluters. This book shows how they also treat animals with unspeakable cruelty. It is a compelling testament to the need to civilize this industry and end its radical practices for producing meat, dairy and eggs.”
—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"In Farm Sanctuary, Gene Baur highlights the appalling conditions billions of animals are forced to endure in factory farms – in order to produce more meat more cheaply in the shortest possible time. His descriptions of the courageous battles fought by many individuals to end such practices are touching. Filled with hope, this book is written for all who strive for a more compassionate world—I highly recommend it."
—Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

"For years, Farm Sanctuary has been a refuge for cruelly treated animals, rescued from the nightmare world of the factory farm. Now Farm Sanctuary is also a beautiful and stirring book, as filled with the spirit of mercy as the place that inspired it."
—Matthew Scully, author of Dominion

"Farm Sanctuary is a wonderful and inspiring book—about animals in need of compassion and laws in need of reform. Some of the stories Gene Baur tells will break your heart, and other stories will speak to your deepest convictions. It's a book about appalling cruelty and heroic kindness, and it points the way to a better world."
—Alicia Silverstone

"The factory farming industries do their best to keep people from knowing the truth about how meat, eggs and dairy are produced. Gene and Farm Sanctuary deserve high praise for working so hard to educate the public and make the world a more compassionate and humane place."
—Moby

“If you want to pretend that agribusiness treats farm animals just like members of their own families, then this book isn’t for you. But if you want to live a compassionate life, and want your choices to be congruent with your love, then read Gene Baur’s excellent Farm Sanctuary. You’ll be a wiser, stronger and healthier person for it.”
-—John Robbins, author Diet For A New America, The Food Revolution, and Healthy At 100

“Gene Baur embodies the best of modern social entrepreneurship...The story of Farm Sanctuary's earliest days, its small victories and heartbreaking disappointments, as well as the wider reach of a maturing organization, will inspire you and cause you to re-examine your relationship to the animal food and fiber products you consume...Gene's engaging book traces how we got here, and the hopeful options we have ahead of us for making healthier and more compassionate choices.”
-John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market

"Gene Baur and Farm Sanctuary have helped to bring the U.S. animal welfare movement into the twenty-first century, winning victories for farm animals that have the support of most Americans—once they learn the truth about industrial animal farming today."
—Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation

“Since the 1980s, Gene has rescued neglected, abused, and injured animals from the appalling, disgusting conditions at auctions and stockyards. Meet the fascinating animals he saved in this insightful book.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation

"I have always admired the tremendous work of Farm Sanctuary. Farm animals need our ethical consideration, and Farm Sanctuary has played a central role in getting the issue of their plight on the national agenda."
—Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the U.S.

"This book is the most authentic account of the real lives of farm animals, by the St. Francis of our time. There is nobody else in America who could tell the truth about farm animals from such a deep perspective, and at the same time make your heart soar."
—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

"With grace and with guts, Gene Baur tells us how he and a few other animal advocates finally stood up for the rights of farmed animals, how they shook awake a sleeping public, and how animal agribusiness fought them all every step of the way. A great read-- the best book on the U.S. movement for the rights of animals used for food."
-Jim Mason, author of The Way We Eat (with Peter Singer) and An Unnatural Order )

"For both humans and other animals, Farm Sanctuary is as close to the Garden of Eden as we have seen in our lifetimes. Now, with the publication of the book, Farm Sanctuary, we can read the story of what went into the Garden's creation."
—Tom Regan, author of Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights

“Not unlike the great liberationist movements of the past—whether those championed by Susan B. Anthony or Mahatma Gandhi—Gene's profoundly successful efforts should rightly be credited with having created the blueprint for what some would call a utopian call...to be gentle, compassionate and truly human.”
—Dr. Michael Tobias, global ecologist, author, filmmaker, President of the Dancing Star Foundation

"Gene Baur went with his video camera to places that we would
prefer not to see -- into the feed lots and the factory farms where he
rescued animals and obtained the documentation and information, that when seen, was so shocking and completely unacceptable to a culture that believes itself to be 'humane'."
—Sue Coe, Artist

"Since Farm Sanctuary first opened its barn doors more than twenty years ago, thousands of animals have been rescued, millions of people have been educated, and countless perspectives have been shifted. Farm animals couldn't ask for a better advocate than Gene Baur."
—Rory Freedman, coauthor of Skinny Bitch

'This book is not only a reflection of what Gene and the Farm Sanctuary represent but also an eye opener to anyone who has been in the dark about the abuse in factory farming and what can be done to prevent it.'
—Kevin Nealon