Temple Grandin: Unethical Or Ethical?

I hold a full-time office position and am a single mother of a sweet baby girl. As if working and being a mom isn’t enough, I am also dedicated to providing her with breastmilk for her entire first year of life. One day, proceeding a night full of screaming, teething, and troubles, I sat in my designated area at work; pumping milk. I thoroughly appreciate my pumping breaks. I can catch up on personal emails, check Instagram, or I can simply, but not usually, relax. For anyone who can’t relate, pumping takes a lot of time. You become a machine. So true! My mind often wanders from this to that while I pump, but this was the first time that it had ever wandered to my topic of discussion for this essay. I pictured one cow, in a personal
As I started fishing around, an email notification popped up on my screen. One of my college professors directed me towards the author, Temple Grandin. I wanted to get some background knowledge on the author, so I did a quick search. An autistic philosopher, Dr. Grandin did not speak until after she was three years old. She communicated frustration through screaming and humming. I got on ACC’s library portal and found and few different selections from Grandin. One source in particular stuck out to me, a book titled, “Livestock Handling and Transport.” The book is fair and focused on ethical meat production, handling, and
In farms where abuse occurs, managers are lax and do not care, and experience great financial losses due to mistreatment of their livestock. Good managers will motivate his or her employees to treat animals with respect, and in return, those farms will produce better numbers. Consequences of poor handling include “bruises, injuries, lower weight gains, reduced milk yield, or lowered pregnancy rates.” (P. ) This goes back to my previous statement, that eating meat can be situationally either ethical, or unethical. She also developed a scoring system, where farms are evaluated on a yes/no basis as to whether or not animals are “stunned correctly, are prodded with an electric rod, vocalize during handling, and slip and fall during handling.” (P. ) with vocalization being a major stress determination. Grandin reinforces that through treating animals ethically; farms can increase earnings, society will prosper, and animals will live a happier life with minimal stress