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I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 29
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What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
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Autism is part of who I am.
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I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.
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People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
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I am a big believer in early intervention.
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Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
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If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.
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I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.
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I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.
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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
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People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
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My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
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