Don't miss this week's Convo speaker, Gene Baur with Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food.

Thursday, September 11
11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

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About the Speaker

Gene Baur grew up in Hollywood and worked in television, film and commercials, including some for McDonald's and other fast food restaurants. Baur now campaigns to raise awareness about the negative consequences of industrialized factory farming. He lives in rural New York State and is the co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America's leading farm animal protection organization.

Baur conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses to document conditions. His images from those trips expose factory farming cruelty in detail. 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. The author of Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food , he has 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.