Improving Animal Welfare with Dr. Temple Grandin - Episode 1836

: Episode 1836 – On this Friday show, the amazing Temple Grandin joins Vinnie to talk autism, using tools, selling equipment, improving animal welfare, specificity in guidelines, what we can do, and more.

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TEMPLE GRANDIN

• Dr. Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State.
• There is a movie about this amazing woman!
  • It's simply called Temple Grandin. 
  • She's also been in Time Magazine.
• She grew up using tools.
  • This is a great thing for children.
    • It makes them think and learn.
• Dr. Grandin started by designing equipment. 
  • The equipment was an attempt to make treatment of cattle better, but people were still engaging in bad behavior.
• Things turned around when some activists won a case against McDonalds to do with treatment of livestock.
  • Dr. Grandin took a bunch of executives, like those at McDonalds, on a tour of a cattle farm and they saw the terrible, inhumane conditions.
  • Animal welfare went from an abstraction to something real.
• Dr. Grandin also believes in low carb high fat.
  • She lost lots of weight and she just feels better overall.

ETHICAL TREATMENT OF LIVESTOCK

• Dr. Grandin came up with a simple auditing program and she taught McDonalds how to use it.
  • Wendy's and Burger King signed on.
• If you could not kill 95% of your animals in five shots, you lost your place on the supplier list for big companies like McDonalds.
  • You could also fail in other ways, too.
  • Acts of abuse were automatic fails.
• It was like traffic: you had to figure out what to control and make it very clear.
  
  • Only three out of 75 suppliers had to buy new equipment.
• 1999 was the tipping point.
• Now, Dr. Grandin wants to fix issues on farms, and these are harder to fix.
  • Housing is a big issue, genetic issues are a big issue, lameness is an issue.
  • It's a significant minority who face these issues.
• Supply chain people need to get out of the office and see where there food comes.

AUTISM

• Dr. Grandin is also a huge autism advocate.
  • She was non-verbal until she was 4.
  • Art made a big difference for her –– staying away from electronics is also important for autistic kids.
  • Some autistic kids are visual thinkers, some mathematical thinkers, and some verbal thinkers.
• When she was a kid, people didn't understand autism, so she didn't receive the diagnosis until later in life.
• Doctors would think of her as 'retarded.'
• A big motivator for Dr. Grandin was that she wanted to show she was not stupid.
  • In fact, she is brilliant.

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