Gene Baur

Throughout history, hospitals have sprung up during times of crisis to treat the victims of disaster, violence, and neglect. Farm Sanctuary's new Melrose Small Animal Hospital is no different. At our sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York, Farm Sanctuary has just completed construction of a unique hospital for animals born...

Thousands of years ago, Hippocrates, the founder of western medicine, said, "Let food be thy medicine." Tragically, the way most Americans eat, food is more like poison, making us sick and killing us prematurely. Heart disease and cancer are the nation's top...

When it comes to slaughtering animals too sick or weak to even stand for human food, the majority of U.S. citizens are resoundingly opposed. But despite this public sentiment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) allows this irresponsible and inhumane practice to continue, resulting...

Last month, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) published an article that announced "Veterinarian's Oath revised to emphasize animal welfare commitment: Prevention of animal suffering also a key addition." The updated oath, which was adopted despite stiff opposition within...

The recent recall of half a billion eggs contaminated with salmonella is another reminder about how harmful industrial animal farming is. Thousands of consumers have been sickened, experiencing diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever, and while no deaths have been reported, salmonella can be...

In Ohio, half a million citizens signed petitions this year to place a measure on the statewide ballot to outlaw veal crates, gestation crates and battery cages. As the deadline to submit those signatures approached last month, agribusiness came to the table and agreed...

Over the past year, more than 500,000 Ohio citizens signed a petition aimed at placing an initiative on the statewide ballot this November to ban cruel factory farming practices. Those signatures gathered by tireless volunteers, many of whom were Farm Sanctuary members, were to...

Millions of gallons of oil are spreading across the Gulf of Mexico, killing wildlife and threatening coastal communities. This environmental disaster makes it clear that there are costs associated with our dependency on fossil fuel. These costs are usually hidden well and...

This week, the animal protection group Mercy For Animals released a heart-wrenching undercover video from Conklin Dairy, located in Union County, Ohio, near Columbus. This disturbing footage shows workers brutally beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks, breaking their tails, and violently...

Across the U.S., hundreds of millions of farm animals, including calves raised for veal, sows exploited for breeding and hens used for egg production, are confined in crates and cages so tightly that they cannot walk, turn around or stretch their...

Discussions about our health care system reached a fevered pitch recently in Washington, D.C. with Congress addressing a massive health care bill. Disagreements abound on various policy matters, but there is no question that our nation's health has deteriorated and health...

Agribusiness' overuse of antibiotics in animal feed is yet another way that factory farms threaten human health, reports Katie Couric of CBS Evening News.

In a two-part series aired last week, Couric investigates how antibiotics designed to fight bacterial pathogens in sick animals and people are routinely fed to...

What we decide to eat each day is among the most important decisions we make. Our food profoundly affects the quality of our health, and it can literally kill us. We know through groundbreaking studies, like T. Colin Campbell's "The China Study" that the...

I grew up eating animals, as did the vast majority of us living in the U.S. today. But, I never really made a conscious choice to eat animals. I just picked up the habit without thinking about it. Everybody around me was engaged in the practice and we assumed it...