I’ll tell you my personal experience in animal rights while I was president, while I was director of the zoo. And in fact, president of AZA. I was also on the Board of Directors of the Animal Protective Association which is the biggest humane organization in the metropolitan St. Louis area, only second to the Humane Society of Missouri. And I was very active in the humane movement, not fanatically so. But I also did my best to make sure that at the zoo, we always did the right thing. And I also invited people from the humane community to the zoo, explained how and why we did anything they may have objected to. And so we found that we really had no problem with the humane movement. And even when we had some outta-towners come in from PETA, our community came to our support.
