What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

For example, if ears are back on a horse, it's obviously not very happy. And the eyes show that it's not happy. Now, if the eyes are nice and soft and brown, then it's calm. You can see these things in horses and cattle, and I think that some of these people are just really good at picking up these signals, but they don't realize it.

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.