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		<title>Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[a particularly friendly alliance amongst Baur and Weir (and Weir’s wife Natascha)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a thousand such facilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all the farm animal sanctuaries that have sprung up in its wake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[array of activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at Florida Voices for Animals’ 31st Annual Have A Heart for the Animals Awards Dinner Fundraiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baur offers a warm remembrance of Bob Weir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bird walks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[describes the earliest days of Farm Sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental exhibitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Director]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Sanctuary’s monumental influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feb. 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends of Boyd Hill Nature Preserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funded those initial efforts: by selling vegan hot dogs from the Sanctuary’s VW van at Grateful Dead concerts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Baur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[he and the Weirs teamed to lead efforts in persuading concert venues to serve veggie dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[his concern that many veterinary schools are so cavalier and harsh in their treatment of animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in 1986]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in a nod to Bob Weir’s recent passing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inroads toward reform in curriculum moving very slowly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[m. to 4 p.m]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marking its 40th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on Feb. 22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raptor Fest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Grateful Dead figures into the narrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Sanctuary’s origin story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Sanctuary/Dead relationship continued over the years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the slogan on Farm Sanctuary’s very first bumper sticker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the talk he’s slated to deliver in Tampa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the unusual parking and shuttle arrangement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the world’s first farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trained raptors in free flight]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gene Baur&#8211;president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, considered the world’s first farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization, now marking its 40th anniversary—is nice enough, at my request, to recount the Sanctuary’s origin story for the umpteenth time, incorporating (also at my request!) where the Grateful Dead figures into the narrative, partly in a nod to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://talkinganimals.net/2026/02/gene-baur-president-and-co-founder-of-farm-sanctuary/">Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary</a> first appeared on <a href="https://talkinganimals.net">Talking Animals</a>.</p>]]></description>
		
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