Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin, born in 1947, is an American academic, inventor and ethologist known as one of the most prominent proponents of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter. She has written more than sixty scientific papers on animal behavior and works as a consultant to the livestock industry advising on animal handling facilities, while serving as a faculty member in Animal Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado State University. One of the first autistic people to document her own experiences with autism publicly, she was named to the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people in 2010 and was the subject of the Emmy and Golden Globe winning biographical film Temple Grandin.