Reddit reviews Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)

Ms. Grandin actually lives down the road from me, very interesting lady. She has two good books out too:

http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Make-Us-Human-Creating/dp/0151014892/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251862720&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Translation-Mysteries-Autism-Behavior/dp/0156031442/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251862720&sr=8-5

She is one of the greatest animal advocates out there - her attitude is, "People eat meat. Can't be helped. If people are going to continue to eat meat, I should help those animals have a good life and die humanely. If I don't help them for whatever reason (If I thought that people should all be vegetarians, and animal slaughter should be outlawed a la PETA) then that's an unreasonable position and will never happen, and animals would still going to be getting raised and killed inhumanely. So, it sucks that animals have to die, but they wouldn't be alive in the first place if we weren't raising them to eat them - so let's do it right."

She also puts all or most of her humane slaughterhouse designs into the public domain so as many people can use them as possible.

The author is Temple Grandin - she has written a number of books circling the area of autism. I believe this is the one I am thinking of.

It doesn't have to be raised this inhumanely though. Temple Grandin is an animal behavior specialist. She's single-handedly revolutionized the humane treatment of slaughter animals in the United States. Her book animals in translation has chapters on each of the industries she has worked with. YOU should check out the chapter on chickens. http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Translation-Mysteries-Behavior-Harvest/dp/0156031442

According to Temple Grandin (in _Animals in Translation_), mice do the same thing. If you run mice through a maze all day, you can (through electrodes embedded in their brain or something), correlate various brain signals with where they were in the maze. Then, later, when they go to sleep, you can still look at the data coming from the brain signals, and you can tell that they are still running the maze in their dreams. Pretty crazy idea, pretty cool experiment.

(The book is very interesting, and chock full of strange animal facts. Check it out!)

Just Six Numbers, The Origin of Consciousness, The Blind Watchmaker, Synaptic Self, and Animals in Translation are some of my favorites.

I'm not sure there is an "ethical" way to slaughter. Just more humane.

Temple Grandin made it her career rather than just advocating with words. She's is far from an SJW, just a person with autism who noticed she saw the world in a different view. A view that let her see things in a way that related to how animals see the world.

I read about half of this book she wrote. It explains how she got started and what she does. She's done a Ted Talk, written tons of articles on the treatment of animals and how it should be done, written books about animals and about autism, and works for the industry going around the country and transforming the way every step of an animal's life is handled. Yeah, there's bad places, but there are also lots of great places thanks to her work and what she has done.

Edit to add the [movie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin_(film) about her.

And sorry if you're on desktop, some of the links are mobile. I'm on my phone.