Meat Institute releases new Temple Grandin-narrated ‘Glass Walls’ Video of lamb processing plant

A new Temple Grandin-narrated “Glass Walls” video shot in a lamb processing plant was released online by the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).

Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, world-renowned expert on animal welfare and the subject of an HBO film about her life, hosts each of the videos and she narrates the process in her own words without the aid of a script. The video shows each step in the slaughter process, including the unloading of the trucks, the handling of lamb in the pens, the use of “lead sheep” to guide lamb throughout the plant by leveraging their strong following instinct, the stunning process that is required by the Humane Slaughter Act to ensure they feel no pain, food safety practices, and the steps involved in breaking a carcass down into the cuts of lamb that consumers enjoy.