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Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist.She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior.
Cattle squeeze chutes, such as the portable one pictured here, were Grandin's inspiration for her hug machine.. The inventor of the machine, Temple Grandin, realized as a young child that she would seek out deep pressure stimulation, but she felt over-stimulated when someone hugged or held her.
Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.
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Temple Grandin has worked closely with Jewish slaughterers to design handling systems for cattle, and has said: "When the cut is done correctly, the animal appears not to feel it. From an animal-welfare standpoint, the major concern during ritual slaughter are the stressful and cruel methods of restraint (holding) that are used in some plants."
Temple Grandin's biggest missions is to educate more young people on different types of thinkers — and let them know there are careers out there geared toward what they’re good at.
Forced into Oklahoma, tribes built a cattle industry. After being forced to relocate from Kansas to present day northern Oklahoma in the late 1880s, the Osage people struggled to grow crops on ...
Temple Grandin is a specialist in animal behavior, has received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, [1] and is a professor at Colorado State University. [2] Grandin works as a consultant to the American beef industry, designing slaughterhouse equipment that has been extensively adopted within the United States agricultural industry, even being employed by McDonald's. [3]