# Why isn't there pork cat food?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-there-pork-cat-food/778264 "2017-01-26T22:04:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-there-pork-cat-food/778264/41 "2017-01-29T03:50:01Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Several years ago, when “pink slime” was a big news story, the autistic cow and slaughterhouse expert Temple Grandin spoke here, and I went to see her. During the Q&A, someone asked her opinion of it, and she replied that she was all for it, because it extracts an average of 15 pounds of usable (not necessarily edible) products from each cow carcass, which means we discard a lot less of it.

If you were in Chicago when you saw her we may have been in the same audience.

She is strange inasmuch as she seems to really care about the cows but is absolutely fine with designing slaughterhouses for them.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-there-pork-cat-food/778264/42 "2017-01-29T05:16:25Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> If you were in Chicago when you saw her we may have been in the same audience.
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> She is strange inasmuch as she seems to really care about the cows but is absolutely fine with designing slaughterhouses for them.

It wasn’t in Chicago, and her slaughterhouse design is an offshoot of her training in bovine behavior, with an emphasis on doing the deed as humanely as possible. She isn’t a vegetarian, either.

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