And then when I went to the Steve Jobs theater, I found out that the structural glass walls were designed in Italy, fabricated in Germany, and the carbon fiber roof came from Dubai. We are now paying the price in the food industry for shutting down in house engineering 25 years ago, we're paying for it now. We are now paying the price for taking out the shop classes. And there's a link here with our educational system. But the pork plant and the chicken plant, the equipment's all coming in from Holland. And that equipment we actually still know how to make but that's getting close to retirement. See, I mainly worked in the beef industry.

And I discovered there's a lot of things that we're not making. I went to two state of the art port processing plants, a one to poultry processing plant brand new one in the Steve Jobs theater. What triggered that was two trips I did right before COVID. Temple Grandin, welcome to the think inclusive podcast. Animals make us human, the autistic brain and thinking in pictures, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes, temple and I discuss why she wanted to write visual thinking, what educational advocates can learn from how she helped improve the welfare of farm animals and what educators can do to support visual thinkers. Temple Grandin, professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and the author of New York Times bestsellers, animals and translation. You can learn more about who we are and what we do at. And you're listening to think inclusive, a show where with every conversation, we try to build bridges between families, educators, and disability rights advocates to create a shared understanding of inclusive education, and what inclusion looks like in the real world. My name is Tim Villegas from the Maryland Coalition for inclusive education. I think that is a worthy message to amplify. Grandin recognizes that our public schools are missing the mark with offering a flexible curriculum for all learners, and that for visual thinkers like her hands on classes are unfortunately, absent for many school systems. So let me tell you the reason why I wanted to have temple on the podcast.

The mention of Temple Grandin in some circles in the disability community can induce reactions from cringe to accolades. Okay, I'm going to address this right from the start.

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