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Jul. 2, 2010

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Ranch Welfare Audits

Auditing for animal welfare at the ranch demands simplicity and effectively chosen critical control points. Temple Grandin – renowned livestock behaviorist – began gathering benchmark data in 1996...More
Apr. 1, 2010

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An Update on Animal Behaviorist Temple Grandin

Life has changed a bit for Temple Grandin since the Feb. 6 debut of her biopic on HBO, Temple Grandin. She's being called on more as a speaker on autism, for one thing, and she's recognized more in public. Yeah, a lot more, she says. In fact, two people recognized me just this morning in the airport...More
Mar. 1, 2010

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Go one on one

I remember the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Our science class was assigned to go out and document environmental degradation...More
Mar. 1, 2010

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HSUS Watchdog On Duty Is the Aim of a New Center for consumer Freedom Website

HumaneWatch.org, a watchdog project dedicated to analyzing the activities of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), has been launched...More
Jan. 1, 2010

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Safe Makes For Safety

All the recent industry emphasis on low-stress, quiet methods of cattle handling has an added benefit reducing workplace injuries. In fact, an analysis...More
Jan. 1, 2010

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Temple Hits HBO

The U.S. beef industry will be front and center of America on Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. (EST). That marks the premiere on HBO of a biopic entitled Temple Grandin....More
Aug. 1, 2009

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Why So Wild?

Recently I had a scary experience at a feedlot with wild, agitated cattle. When I brought a group up to the crowd pen in the processing area, the cattle...More
May 1, 2009

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Humane monitoring

Cargill expects to have third-party, 24/7 video auditing in place in all its U.S. beef harvesting plants by year's end. The aim is to further enhance...More
Mar. 27, 2009

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HSUS Plots To Make Underwood Top Country Artist

The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), the most radical animal rights and anti-hunting organization in the U.S., is plotting to make country artist and vegetarian Carrie Underwood the Academy of Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year....More
Mar. 1, 2009

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HSUS wish list

The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) issued its wish list for USDA: A comprehensive ban on slaughter of downer cattle and increased oversight of the...More
Mar. 1, 2009

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Letter from Errol

Reader Errol Wells of Elba, NE made my and DVM Mike Apley's day last month. Wells e-mailed me to say he'd recently responded to an article in his local...More
Feb. 17, 2009

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HSUS Delivers Its Federal Agenda

The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) has listed the issues it wants the various federal agencies to address....More
Feb. 13, 2009

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We Can’t Forget Who Stands Against Us

Stung by the recent success of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) in garnering public attention, People...More
Jan. 1, 2009

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Take It Easy

It's wonderful to see the increasing emphasis cattle producers are putting on low-stress cattle handling. Handling cattle quietly has many benefits, including...More
Dec. 1, 2008

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No, I expect you to die

There's a scene in the movie, where James Bond is spraddled across a table with a laser beam moving up from his feet to cut him in half. His nemesis stands...More
Dec. 1, 2008

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Ranchers care

Proposition 2, the Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative statute, is a California ballot proposition that passed in that state's general election...More
Oct. 1, 2008

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Bud Box

Bowie, TX, stockman Bud Williams says he hopes to live long enough to see his animal-handling brainstorm put to use in every U.S. feedlot and ranch. At...More
Aug. 1, 2008

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Temple Grandin on prods

I would like to make an additional comment on Boone Carter's article on low-stress cattle handling regarding the use of electric prods (Don't Stress,...More
Aug. 1, 2008

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Humane Livestock Handling

Written by Temple Grandin with Mark Deesing, Humane Livestock Handling is a 230-page, soft-cover blueprint for low-stress cattle handling. The Colorado...More
Jun. 1, 2008

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The changing corn environment

Part II: Short-term management implications The bottom line to the changing corn environment is that feedlot costs of gain (COG) will increase substantially...More
May 1, 2008

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The shape of things to come

I came to a revelation recently that troubles me. Twenty years ago, my wife would have warned anyone to avoid the subject of animal-rights groups unless...More
Apr. 1, 2008

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More Questions

The plant needs to shoulder the blame, but responsibility also resides with whoever decided to put those cattle on the truck and send them to the plant,...More
Apr. 1, 2008

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Transportation effect on calves

Calf management before transport influences later performance under stress, Canadian researchers say. Behavioral and physiological indicators of stress,...More
Apr. 1, 2008

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Producers share the blame

Regarding the treatment of the downer dairy cows in the Chino, CA plant (“California Nightmare, March 2008 BEEF), my 45 years in the beef industry tell me...More
Apr. 1, 2008

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We’re all regulators

During the week I'm chairman and CEO of a large national food company dealing with dairy products. I've been in the business 38 years and have run plants, conversion facilities and various distribution companies. I've dealt with...More

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