The subject of animal slaughter is a sensitive subject, and I can see a few different sides to the argument. Temple Grandin’s work is definitely innovative and brilliant, but that doesn’t make it completely ethical. When it comes down to it, we are still raising these animals to ultimately kill them. Does improving their quality of life really make a difference?
While watching the movie, the scenes with the cattle dip really stick out to me. At first, the idea that the cattle would be tricked into thinking they were going some place other than the slaughterhouse concerned me. It seemed wrong to me to lead them through this maze not knowing the end of it would be their death. But after seeing the workers try to alter her plan and the disaster that ensued it started to make more sense to me. Although blindly leading them to death doesn’t completely sit well with me, it is much more tolerable to me than abusing them on their way to slaughter.
Looking back at other related films we’ve viewed in class, I think the conditions of the factory farms and slaughter houses disturbed me more than the fact that these were animals raised to be killed. Unfortunately, eating animals has become far too embedded in our culture and way of life to be stopped completely. If we must raise these animals for food, we can at least give them a comfortable life using guidelines created by people like Temple Grandin.
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