Truth about Temple Grandin and “humane slaughter”
Many farmers talk about “humane slaughter”. Those words are an oxymoron. No slaughter is ever humane. When confronted about this farmers will point
to Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin
designed center track restraining system used in about half of all the US
slaughter houses. She is the author of many livestock handling books.
Two points that need to be addressed when talking about
Temple Grandin.
1.
She
redesigned slaughter houses to make it easier for the workers. Cows were fighting for their lives and making
it harder for workers to kill.
2.
She has severe autism. One of the traits of
autism is lack of empathy. Scientists have been studying why people with autism have little or no empathy and best they have come up with is it has something to do with interpreting eye and body language. Temple Grandin herself has stated in many speeches that she is incapable of a loving relationship. So for people to call her designs “humane” makes no
sense. Her goal in her designs was to improve productivity. Yes, she did increase productivity and now animals are being slaughtered at alarming rates-90 billion per year. Remember one billion is a million million.
Even in
Temple’s designs, once animals figure out what is going on they try to escape,
but because the chutes are so narrow they are unable to turn around. Temple
also has advocated the use of “pink slime” in food and shows slaughterhouse
workers how to use the stun gun. It is
most ironic that Temple works in the animal agriculture industry, when studies
at the University of Rome have shown that removing dairy from autistic children’s
diets greatly improved their behavior.
Their studies have shown a link between casein (a chemical in dairy) and
autism.
The only humane
slaughter is NO slaughter.
If you would not
like it done to you, don’t do it to others.
Join a peaceful world and go vegan.
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