“Time Magazine” Interviews Farm Sanctuary’s Gene Baur
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 27th, 2011 in Animal Issues, Charitable Causes And Campaigns, Food & Drink.
This year, the hottest group on tour doesn’t even have a lead singer or guitarist, but they sure are making noise.
Farm Sanctuary’s co-founder Gene Baur is traveling across the United States in an iconic van like the one he started the sanctuary in back in 1986 when he sold veggie hot dogs form it.
Through photos, videos, recipes and more, Baur will look at the history of the vegan movement and hopefully pick up a few groupies looking to joining the lifestyle.
Time magazine recently interviewed Baur about the Farm Sanctuary “Just Eats” tour, the sanctuary’s accomplishments over the past quarter decade and its goals for 2012.
“The idea to go cross country was to explore vegan America,” Baur said. “I believe we’re now in the midst of a food movement where people are moving away from supporting industrialized factory farming, which had been a growing approach for decades. I think people in recent years have come to recognize the cruelty associated with factory farming, the human health consequences and also the environmental harm caused by animal agriculture, and I think we’re seeing a move to plant-based food systems.”
Baur is currently in Tulsa, Oklahoma and will be in the Dallas and Austin, Texas area this Memorial Day weekend. For more stops on the tour, visit Just Eats Tour.
Photo: Farm Sanctuary/Creative Commons
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