By Helena Bottemiller
June 22 and 23, 2010
As part of their ongoing expert Q&A series, Food Safety News has a conversation with world-renowned livestock expert Temple Grandin on humane handling, small vs. big, transparency, and the future of agriculture.
"Dr. Temple Grandin has been a thought leader in both the animal agriculture and autism realms for decades. Grandin, the world's most well-known autistic person, is a New York Times best-selling author, a professor of animal science, a consultant to the leading food companies, and a noted speaker on animal behavior and autism. She attributes her success in improving humane handling systems for livestock, systems that now impact around half the cattle in North America, to her different way of thinking. "As a person with autism, it is easy for me to understand how animals think because my thinking processes are like an animal's," she says. Earlier this year, Grandin was named a "Hero" among TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people and was the subject of the HBO film Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes...."
Read the full Q&A here: Part I and Part II.
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