Temple Grandin designed a Canadian horse slaughter plant that had hidden video installed recording ongoing violations of the humane methods of slaughter act (this requires equines to be rendered unconscious with a single blow to the head before being exsanguinated and cut up (the heart needs to be pumping to push the blood out). I reviewed the video of each violation with Ms. Grandin several times. Horses were stunned multiple times; one a brutal 11 times without being knocked out.  Grandin, inexcusably, defended every single violation and was ignorant of other aspects of slaughter that I informed her of. The plant in the videotape was shut down over the violations, only to reopen with no video monitoring, so were the humane violations corrected? Not likely.Killing animals for food is brutal, and even small steps to improve the animals suffering doesn't remove it. At Ms. Grandin's plant, it made it worse.I do agree that visual thinking is underserved in our school systems and culture. But animals are visual thinkers, and Grandin's work consulting for the meat industry completely denies the rights to animal that she wants expanded for people like herself.

Temple Grandin designed a Canadian horse slaughter plant that had hidden video installed recording ongoing violations of the humane methods of slaughter act (this requires equines to be rendered unconscious with a single blow to the head before being exsanguinated and cut up (the heart needs to be pumping to push the blood out). I reviewed the video of each violation with Ms. Grandin several times. Horses were stunned multiple times; one a brutal 11 times without being knocked out.  Grandin, inexcusably, defended every single violation and was ignorant of other aspects of slaughter that I informed her of. The plant in the videotape was shut down over the violations, only to reopen with no video monitoring, so were the humane violations corrected? Not likely.Killing animals for food is brutal, and even small steps to improve the animals suffering doesn't remove it. At Ms. Grandin's plant, it made it worse.I do agree that visual thinking is underserved in our school systems and culture. But animals are visual thinkers, and Grandin's work consulting for the meat industry completely denies the rights to animal that she wants expanded for people like herself.

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