No amount of oversight can make killing those who want to live “humane.” We must confront the fact that the real solution lies not in reforming slaughter, but in eliminating it altogether. Brian C.

Temple Grandin is an icon, an "anthropologist on Mars" as she aptly puts it, in a book of the same name by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks whom I had the extreme pleasure of meeting a few months ...

Things that make me cringe: a cow standing in line awaiting its turn to be slaughtered, a hog being boiled alive, and a pig receiving electrical shocks to die from an intense seizure. I’ve been ...

While I enjoy Dr. Grandin's feistiness I disagree with her views on cows. Her seemingly humane "stairway to heaven" along which cows trod to their death ("dead cow walking") doesn't protect but a tiny ...