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Gene Baur

    Gene Baur champions awareness of the detrimental consequences of industrialized factory farming and our inexpensive food system. After years dedicated to various environmental and human rights causes, he turned his focus to animal agriculture. To document conditions, he conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses. His pictures and videotape, exposing factory farming cruelty, have been aired nationally and internationally, educating millions. He played a significant role in passing the first U.S. laws prohibiting cruel farming systems.

    Voices of the Food Revolution
    • Voices of the Food Revolution

      You Can Heal Your Body and Your World─With Food!

      • 265 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      From the over-one-million-copies-sold author who made popular the connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism.A revolution in food-politics. When John Robbins released an early version of this book in 1987, he took the first steps in launching the food revolution. His viewpoint and insight on the harms of America’s eating habits was a wake-up call for many.Making conscious food choices. It is obvious to us that what we eat affects our own bodies, but what we may not realize is that what we eat also affects our world. In fact, most of the foods that are bad for us (think: genetically modified products) also negatively impact our environment. By approaching our eating habits with intentionality, we benefit our own health and that of the world we live in.The value of a plant-based diet. Robbins’ arguments for a plant-based diet are compelling and backed by over 20 years of work focused on the subject of conscious eating. Through exposing the dangers in our factory farming system, Robbins makes a definitive case for solely plant-based eating. This timely read on healthy eating will enlighten those curious about plant-based diets and fortify the mindsets of the already converted.Inside find:The negative effects your current eating habits could be having on youA powerful case for plant-based eatingWisdom from one of the most frequently cited books of the food-politics revolution

      Voices of the Food Revolution2013