The latest mass-food emergency has re-opened a lot of important conversations about food, nutrition and health. In one of those conversations a friend referred me to Food, Inc.<\/a> And, although maybe not completely logical, I suggested she watch Temple Grandin.<\/p>\n

My eclectic taste in reading material introduced me to Dr Grandin’s work and I started with Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour.<\/a> Yes, I like dog training… and yes, I enjoyed my time learning about service dogs for kids with autism but what I love about that book is the way that she talks about different types of thinking. Her work has been instrumental in improving conditions for the animals we use for food.<\/p>\n

Temple Grandin, the HBO movie about her life, just won at the Emmys<\/a> so Dr. Grandin and her work are in the news again. Aside from being a shining example of all FOUR FOUNDATIONS<\/a> Dr Grandin inspires me to think differently and, as a result, I leave you with a question.<\/p>\n

Is it possible that the things we need to do to be more kind are the exact same things we need to do to be healthier?<\/p>\n

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Dr Temple Grandin is an inspiring role model and example of all four foundations of adult achievement. As I think about her work and the latest food safety crisis I wonder: how closely related are increased kindness and better health?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,153,172,453,542],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-topics","tag-autism","tag-family-life","tag-food-safety","tag-role-model","tag-temple-grandin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}