Temple Grandin Treat Animals Summary

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Temple Grandin was an Autistic woman that cared deeply about the treatment of animals and how they are treated before they are slaughtered. Ms. Grandin is a very hard worker, that spent many summers on her aunt's farm. She learned that when cattle gets put into a restraint that they become calm, and since she is autistic she can see things in a different perspective than “normal” people. She has spent all of her career making a humane slaughter house, that keeps the employees safe and the cattle calm during the slaughtering processes. With that being said I think it is very important to treat all animals fairly. Treating animals fairly not only keeps the handlers safe, but it helps produce better meat. If Temple Grandin never visited her aunt's …show more content…
For example, in movies when people die or get hurt, we tend to just brush it off and move on, but if an animal dies or gets hurt then we will shed a tear or two. We care more about how an animal is being treated vs. how humans are being treated. The PETA, People for the ethical treatment of animals states “The abuse that animals suffer at human hands is heartbreaking, sickening, and infuriating. It’s even more so when we realize that the everyday choices we make—such as what we eat for lunch and the kind of shampoo we buy—may be directly supporting some of this abuse (Paragraph 1).” This statement is true until we as humans start to treat animals better, not only in the food industry, but every industry, even if it is just a personal pet. The treatment of animals if known to be poorly because the way that we as humans treat them, there is no need to treat them poorly, animals have feeling too. The PETA, also state that “On today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices. These animals will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural and important to them. Most won’t even feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they’re loaded onto trucks headed for slaughterhouses (Paragraph 1).” I agree with this statement because Temple Grandin has made her slaughterhouse into a very humane one, and there is a set number of cattle in each stall, and they are outside, and have enough room to move freely about the pin. The cattle also walk into the slaughterhouse and still have enough room to stay calm, and move about freely. In Temple Grandin's slaughterhouse the cattle go one by one through a number of curved pathways so that they cant see what is infront of