Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:10:54 -0400
From: Brenda Denzler
Subject: FW: Animals don’t know….?
Jeanne,
Don’t underestimate what animals perceive. (1) If animals truly didn’t know what was going on *at some point* during the slaughtering process, why the need for Dr. Temple Grandin’s services to design more humane slaughter facilities? Yet her services have indeed been very much in demand. (2) Grandin herself speaks very eloquently to the issue of animal sentience. See her *Animals in Translation* or several of the chapters in her *Thinking in Pictures.* (3) Check out Dr. Marc Bekoff’s *The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter*. Bekoff is an ethologist.
