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They would, if they would sit down and think long and hard about their place in the universe, their obligations to their fellow humans, and the ways in which their version of the world would be cold, dead, and empty. Or they could grow a sense of humor, but I've given up on that happening.
There are wrongs to struggle against, in
the way humans treat animals, but I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin does more good in a single day than PETA, and so on, have done in their entire history, and while keeping her clothes on, too!
I agree. Something tells me that my dogs don't mind being called pets....just don't call them late for dinner. Not sure who Temple Grandin is. And...not sure what "while keeping her clothes on"...has PETA done things without their clothes on? not a PETA fan necessarily, just curious on the comment.
PETA does a whole lot of very exploitative female nudity, yes.
Temple Grandin is my hero.
Emmy Award Winning Movie,
Wikipedia article,
livestock handling site. There's other stuff too, an autism website, several memoirs, a part of Oliver Sack's book
An Anthropologist From Mars. For the purposes of this conversation she's done work in the design of livestock handling and holding facilities which has made them less physically and emotionally dangerous for both animals and people, and toughed out the social environment to get her inovations accepted as a women in a very male industry and as a person with a serious neurological difference- or, more farely two of them, because being in the top .001% of the population in IQ (my estimate, not something she brags on like Marilyn Vos Savant) is rarer than being austistic.
When she was doing radio interviews for her book
Thinking in Pictures I heard her describe the way animals saw chutes over and over; I made a couple of small modifications to the corral here and cut about 3/4 of the time for worming and vaccinating spring and fall.