We are sitting at the table eating cereal and Andrew starts having a conversation/monologue about something he has been reflecting on lately...how they slaughter pigs.
"Well, first I thought maybe they starve the pigs to kill them. (Mom thinking...ohh, that is horribly mean. How inhumane can you be?) But then I realized that if you starved the pigs, then they would lose all their fat and a lot of their muscles too. (Me again...Wow, good analysis of how ineffective that would be). So then I thought that maybe the froze them to kill them. (Yep, it's me again...That would have to be a huge fridge. And what would you do with a frozen dead pig? You would have to defrost it to butcher it.) So then I finally decided that they wait until the pigs are sleeping and sneak up on them and cut their necks. (Well, at least that is slightly more humane.)"
Afterward we had a discussion about slaughter houses and how they worked. We even discussed Temple Grandin and her work on creating more humane slaughter houses (last I had heard she had designed at least a third of the slaughter houses in the US). Temple is a Professor at Colorado State (?) and also has autism. She is probably one of the most famous people in the Autism community. She is a fun and informational lady to listen to, but definitely not a comedian. She is very practical and such a great example.
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