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Video Tour of a Beef Plant
- Afraid of Blood: Why Grandin designs the slaughterhouse in a way that doesn't allow the cows to see what's going on.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: According to Grandin, cows get distracted very easily.
- Bittersweet Ending: It ends with the cows dying, but their corpses will feed many families.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Temple Grandin talks directly to the audience throughout the video.
- Dying Alone: Although the cows are in herds when they get to the plant, they're each alone when getting shot with the bolt gun.
- Face Death with Dignity: The cows are shown to be calm when they are in the slaughterhouse.
- Instant Death Bullet: The bolt gun kills cows instantly.
- In the Doldrums: The meat plant is depicted as a barren wasteland.
- Mercy Kill: The cows are killed with a bolt gun before having their throat slit.
- No Dead Body Poops: Downplayed. While the cows don't poop, they do have leg spasms after death.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Peaceful music plays while blood and corpses are shown.
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