--- description: A farm animals' rights activists weighs in on the high price of cheap food — and the right way to eat eggs title: How to Eat Eggs Humanely, by a Vegan image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Pop Culture](/tag/pop-culture/) ## Pop Culture Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # "It May Be Possible to Have an Ethical Egg": A Chat With Gene Baur  by [Belinda Luscombe](/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Mar 28, 2014 7:00 PM CUT  by [Belinda Luscombe](/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Mar 28, 2014 7:00 PM CUT Farm Sanctuary founder Gene Baur is an ultra-mega-uber vegan: he won’t eat eggs or honey, or wear wool, and he gives his turkeys a Thanksgiving feast every November. In this interview, he explains how to eat eggs guilt-free (treat your chickens like family), why humans aren’t necessarily carnivores (we don’t salivate when we see blood) and why factory-farmed food might not be as cheap as we think it is. Baur’s [organization](www.farmsanctuary.org/ "undefined") has been involved with [legislation](http://ballotpedia.org/California%5FProposition%5F2,%5FStandards%5Ffor%5FConfining%5FFarm%5FAnimals%5F%282008%29 "undefined") to increase the room poultry have in hatcheries, to ban [gestation crates](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/07/hog-crates-ban/4362353/ "undefined") — where pregnant pigs have no room to stand up until they give birth — and[ farrowing pens](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Piglets%5FNursing%5Fin%5Fa%5FFarrowing%5FCrate.jpg "undefined"), the fenced-in stalls the pigs feed the piglets in. What does a guy who eats no dairy or meat do when he wants to kick back at the end of a long day of fighting for the rights of farm animals ? Well, it involves cookies — and not the kind you find online. A longer interview with Baur can be found in [the magazine](http://time.com/39854/10-questions-with-gene-baur/ "undefined"), in which he explain how it is that a guy like him ended up in a McDonalds commercial and how turkeys have become so huge and altered that they can’t make baby turkeys normally. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/40965/farm-sanctuary-gene-baur-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/40965/farm-sanctuary-gene-baur-interview/"},"headline":"\"It May Be Possible to Have an Ethical Egg\": A Chat With Gene Baur","datePublished":"2014-03-28T19:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:00:48.837Z","description":"A farm animals' rights activists weighs in on the high price of cheap food — and the right way to eat eggs","url":"https://time.com/40965/farm-sanctuary-gene-baur-interview/","keywords":["Pop Culture","10 Questions","Legislation","Vegan","eggs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/pop-culture/","name":"Pop Culture"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/40965/farm-sanctuary-gene-baur-interview/","name":"\"It May Be Possible to Have an Ethical Egg\": A Chat With Gene Baur"}}]}] ```