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Temple Grandin is an expert on animal behavior who designed human handling systems for half the cattle-processing facilities in the US, and consults with the meat industry to develop animal welfare guidelines. She was rewarded in 2004 by PETA. Time Magazine listed her as one of its most important people of the year due to her achievements of decreasing the amount of fear and pain that animals experience in their final hours. Grandin created a ted talk to spread autism awareness. In her ted talk Temple discusses how her mind words and gives a brief overview of how people on the Autism spectrum think, and makes a bold statement that the world needs more of those people. Those people can be classified as visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal

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