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cattle as well. She wrote a list of tiny details that scare farm animals. Grandin (2005), “Animals and autistie people don’t have to be paying attention to something in order to see it. Things like jigely chains pop out at us; they grab our attention whether we want them to or not. For a normal hhuman being, almost nothing in the environment pops. That means it’s practically impossible for ‘a human being to actually see something brand-new in the first place. People probably don’t like novelty any more than animals do, but people don’t get exposed to much novelty, because they don’t notice it when its there. Humans are built to see what they're expecting to see and it’s hard to expect to see something you've never seen, New things just don’t register” (p.51). Another important thing talked about in this book is the idea of selection pressure, something that humans put on animals that can have dangerous, unintended consequences later down the line. Selection pressure happens when humans directly control which of their domestic animal species reproduce. Many times they are only focused on the one or two traits they want the offspring to have and can end up messing with the way nature intended things. This is called single-trait breeding and “warps evolution.” You end up with males raping the females and many other unintended consequences. It is important to realize that with domestic animals, we are their environments. Humans control their evolution and their lives. Grandin (2005) said, “We're constantly changing their bodies and their emotions, and it happens a lot faster than we realize” en humans are selecting for a trait, usually physical, they don’t think about the emotional and behavioral changes that will take place in the animal also. Grandin (2005) puts it this way, “It’s when you consciously and purposely breed an animal to change one defined physical trait dramatically from what nature intended that you can definitely end up with some major emotional and behavioral problems. Moreover, when you're trying to change a physical trait you very, very often end up changing an emotional and behavioral trait, too. The body and

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