Temple Grandin ((better)) Jun 2026

Her philosophy is not one of abolitionism but of stewardship. She argues that we have a moral obligation to give the animals under our care a life worth living and

Born in Boston in 1947, Mary Temple Grandin did not speak until she was nearly four years old. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the diagnosis of autism was barely understood. Doctors recommended institutionalization, labeling her "brain damaged." Her mother, Eustacia Cutler, refused.

Temple Grandin: Look at what people can do, not what they can't