Questions to ask Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin is the Keynote speaker for a conference at my university. I might have a chance to ask her some questsions. If I do, I'd like to ask good ones so I don't think i should be the one to come up with all of them

Please give me suggestions.

Here is what i have so far:

At the rate beef is consumed, do you think that cattle can be killed in a way that is both ethical and humane?

Do you still feel that your sensory skills and sensitivity to the feelings of animals are best served devising ways to kill cattle for the meat industry?

What are five ways that people can work to reduce beef consumption in order to reduce the impact of the cattle industry on the environment?

How do you feel about the reduction of wolf populations in national wilderness areas on behalf of the American cattle industry?

Does anyone get the feeling that I don't think too highly of the work of Temple Grandin?

I personally think Dawn Prince-Hughes is a far better representative of people with autism working with animals then Temple Grandin ever was.

To be nice, I would tell her who you are, and ask her to come to Wrong Planet once in a while so that members of the AS community here can ask her questions directly.

these are the questions i would like her to answer too.

My question: Would she come and visit my university?

Doesnt she do anything about endangered animals?

Can I have a revellent link about her or some more info I don’t know who she is

Here is an excellent article by Temple Grandin: http://www.autism.org/temple/jobs.html

and here is the link to her website, which is primarily oriented towards livestock and humane livestock handling- her life's work: http://www.grandin.com/index.html

I think many of the questions posed by Irishmic has been addressed in her latest book, Animals in Translation. I mean, this woman has almost singlehandledly revolutionized the standards by which livestock are treated and the degree of trauma and upset that they experience. Meat eating is a fact of life that's been around for millenia. It isn't going to change, but we should take pains that the animals experience as little stress and pain as possible, and she's spent nearly all her life working for that.

Her work is with domestic animals.

I guess that this question

I would rephrase as:

What are your views on the future of autism? Researchers and groups such as "Cure Autism Now" (CAN), want to "cure us and rid the world of our kind. You have previously made comments to the effect that curing us and others might rob the world of its potential for genius. Is there a place for us in the world, and what do you think it is?

Should those of us whose children are also on the autism spectrum endeavor to "cure" them, give them "therapy" to try to make them as normal as possible, or should we develop their strengths and gifts and uniqueness? What would you do if you had a child who was HFA or has Asperger's syndrome?

What about cheetas? or rhinos? Or elephants? or tigers?

They are all valuable animals, Ilikedragon, just not what Dr. Grandin does.

interview went well. hundreds of people there...


She talked to me a lot and she mentioned the URL for WrongPlanet.net in her speech ! !! ! I videotaped the whole thing, including her interview. And I'm going to give away 2 signed copies of her books for some sort of contest that I haven't totally finished making yet.

wow, a competition here on WP?

yes

Oooo I can hardly wait! What about the video?