It's a typical day for Temple Grandin. On this mid-October morning, she is in another hotel in another city preparing to give another series of presentations on a topic that is her life's work. Hundreds of miles from her home base in Fort Collins, Colo., Grandin - a professor of livestock behavior and welfare at Colorado State Univ. - is in Kansas City, Mo., for the annual Animal Care & Handling Conference, an annual event that began in 1999 and has become a must-attend for anyone working in the meat-processing industry supply chain, and especially for those responsible for working with livestock on a daily basis. At the conclusion of the conference, which Grandin has never missed, her schedule always dictates that she head directly to an annual autism conference also held in Kansas City, where she is the keynote speaker.
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