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The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund's 2025 Spring Symposium, "The Choices We Make and the Animal Impact." The Symposium featured panelists substantially connected to the fields of animal rights, law, and industry.
Sponsored and organized by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Gene Baur is Co‑Founder and President of Farm Sanctuary. He was a pioneer in undercover investigations and instrumental in passing the first U.S. laws to ban inhumane factory farming practices. His pictures and videos exposing factory farming cruelties have aired nationally and internationally, educating millions about the plight of modern farm animals. Gene has also testified in courts and before local, state, and federal legislative bodies, advocating for better conditions for farm animals. His most important achievements include winning the first-ever cruelty conviction at a U.S. stockyard and passing the first U.S. laws to prohibit cruel farming confinement methods in Florida, Arizona, and California. His work has been covered by major media outlets, and he has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine.
The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund's 2025 Spring Symposium, "The Choices We Make and the Animal Impact." The Symposium featured panelists substantially connected to the fields of animal rights, law, and industry.
Sponsored and organized by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Gene Baur is Co‑Founder and President of Farm Sanctuary. He was a pioneer in undercover investigations and instrumental in passing the first U.S. laws to ban inhumane factory farming practices. His pictures and videos exposing factory farming cruelties have aired nationally and internationally, educating millions about the plight of modern farm animals. Gene has also testified in courts and before local, state, and federal legislative bodies, advocating for better conditions for farm animals. His most important achievements include winning the first-ever cruelty conviction at a U.S. stockyard and passing the first U.S. laws to prohibit cruel farming confinement methods in Florida, Arizona, and California. His work has been covered by major media outlets, and he has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine.
