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Anyone read Temple Grandin's stuff (autistic cattle pen designer)?
I'm making my way through her book "Translating Animals" and she has a
few interesting things to say about cat behavior. Just curious whether any of you cat mavens have read her stuff, and what your reactions are? Thanks BLink -------------------------- "The worst thing about censorship is [redacted]" |
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Anyone read Temple Grandin's stuff (autistic cattle pen designer)?
Brian Link wrote:
I'm making my way through her book "Translating Animals" and she has a few interesting things to say about cat behavior. Just curious whether any of you cat mavens have read her stuff, and what your reactions are? Thanks BLink Yes, I've read it although I admit I have found it a bit dry and have skipped around some. Someone gave it to me as a gift because I'm a vegetarian for animal reasons (rather than health reasons) and I guess I had a hard time getting around the cattle thing so I let it just lay there. I can't quite understand how someone who professes to think like an animal and understand animlas so acutely can still condone their butchering for food albeit a more humane butchering. It's like eating your own kind. But, yes, there were some things I found interesting. Unfortunately, I can't think of what they were specifically at the moment. Candace |
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Anyone read Temple Grandin's stuff (autistic cattle pen designer)?
On 4 Aug 2006 19:58:57 -0700, "Candace" wrote:
Brian Link wrote: I'm making my way through her book "Translating Animals" and she has a few interesting things to say about cat behavior. Just curious whether any of you cat mavens have read her stuff, and what your reactions are? Thanks BLink Yes, I've read it although I admit I have found it a bit dry and have skipped around some. Someone gave it to me as a gift because I'm a vegetarian for animal reasons (rather than health reasons) and I guess I had a hard time getting around the cattle thing so I let it just lay there. I can't quite understand how someone who professes to think like an animal and understand animlas so acutely can still condone their butchering for food albeit a more humane butchering. It's like eating your own kind. But, yes, there were some things I found interesting. Unfortunately, I can't think of what they were specifically at the moment. Candace Temple's rationale for helping the cattle industry was pretty logical. Humans remain omnivores, and no amount of PETA protests will kill the meat industry. Given this, a person who loves animals should do what they can to insure that these meat-animals are treated humanely. A cow in a pen, led up to slaughter: If they're content in the pen, and move unperturbed to slaughter, and are subsequently killed instantaneously, there is no cruelty. I love all animals, too. I was delivering phone books one summer in the 70s, and had to walk a catwalk to an auction barn in the center of the St. Paul stockyards. All the cattle I was walking over stared at me the whole way. It was heartbreaking, but that's because I was anthropomorphizing these animals, and they hadn't had the benefit of her innovations. What Temple Grandin is trying to do is make sure that there are no suffering cows, pigs or chickens. That's laudatory, as far as I'm concerned. Contrast this to the boxes of dogs and cats sold in eastern markets. I don't NEED to eat meat - but I and millions of other americans don't have the resources to get a nutritionally sound diet based on vegetables. We need to eat animals. As empathetic creatures, though, we can insure that they are cared for humanely. BLink -------------------------- "The worst thing about censorship is [redacted]" |
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Anyone read Temple Grandin's stuff (autistic cattle pen designer)?
Brian Link wrote:. What Temple Grandin is trying to do is make sure that there are no suffering cows, pigs or chickens. That's laudatory, as far as I'm concerned. I guess. Contrast this to the boxes of dogs and cats sold in eastern markets. Yes, that's worse, by our standards, anyway. We're used to pigs and cows and chickens being eaten so we don't get as upset as when we see a poor little puppy or kitty about to be eaten. Technically, a soul's a soul and a life's a life so it isn't really any more heinous to eat cat and dog than pig and cow. I don't NEED to eat meat - but I and millions of other americans don't have the resources to get a nutritionally sound diet based on vegetables. We need to eat animals. I don't. And i haven't for about 20 years. And I'm American. And there are more than vegetables that can be eaten. Candace |
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