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1 month ago | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Recent research has shown that some groups of fed feedlot cattle include a high percentage of the livestock showing signs of congestive heart failure. Over the years, this problem has gradually become worse.
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1 month ago | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
The World Animal Health Association (WOAH) has published the latest guidelines on “Animal Welfare During Slaughter.” It is in Chapter 7.5 of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code. This is an international guideline that many different countries have agreed on. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) had input into developing this guideline.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
Within the last year, I have experienced four weird glitches in computer systems that are cause for concern on a larger scale. If similar glitches appear in processors’ computer systems, they have the potential to disrupt operations with widespread impacts. On Feb. 22, 2024, the entire network for AT&T crashed. After it recovered, there was some kind of glitch between my AT&T cell phone and United Airlines.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
Bison are an increasingly important part of the meat industry. At restaurants, I am seeing more and more bison products on the menu. For small producers who are getting started with raising livestock, bison may be a good choice. They are disease resistant, and they will calve without assistance. A survey conducted by NAHMS/USDA indicated that some of the top priorities for bison ranchers are environmental stewardship, parasite resistance and grazing management.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Temple Grandin
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
Today’s fed cattle are getting bigger and bigger. Steve Kay wrote in Cattle Buyers Weekly that fed beef carcasses are 38 lbs heavier compared to June of last year. This is good from a sustainability standpoint because more pounds of quality beef are produced from fewer cattle. There are three big problems that this causes. There are increasing problems with back bruises caused by tall cattle hitting their backs when they exit from the bottom deck of a semi-trailer.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Mark Haddon |Werner Herzog |Temple Grandin |Steven Pinker
recommended by Simon Baron-Cohen out in paperback The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen Simon Baron-Cohen, the longstanding director of the University of Cambridge's multidisciplinary Autism Research Centre, offers some recommended reading (plus a film to watch) to help you improve your understanding of the experience of those on the autism spectrum, or of developmental psychology more generally. out in paperback The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives...
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
meatpoultry.com | Temple Grandin
In the five-plant fed beef survey 92% of the cattle had normal mobility. The Meat Institute’s lameness scoring system was used. The scores are: 1) normal, 2) slightly lame, and keeps up with other cattle when a group is walking, 3) more severe lameness and does not keep up with other cattle, 4) extremely reluctant to move. Most of the lame cattle were lameness score two. Many people in the industry are pleased with these lameness scores, however, 8% lame fed cattle is not something to be proud of.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
enewspaper.denverpost.com | Temple Grandin
EDUCATION
We need the skills of autistic people
Recently, eating at Denver International Airport’s food court, I was alarmed reading an article explaining the backstory of Boeing’s struggles with quality and control. The article shared how in the past 20 years, rushing to find new “efficiencies,” the company put much of its production in the hands of subcontractors. As part of that process, it sold one of its major factories to a private equity firm.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
wvnews.com | Temple Grandin |Jonathan Haidt |Dan Schreiber
OAKLAND — The Ruth Enlow Library, Garrett County’s public library system, offers reviews each month of books that are currently available for lending. The following includes the book reviews from June:Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and AbstractionsBy Temple GrandinPublished by Riverhead BooksReviewed byClinton BradleyApril is Autism Acceptance Month. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a label describing this condition.
