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"Shared duty to save monkeys"
Editorial
The Capital Times
Madison, WI
US
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An editorial

Shared duty to save monkeys

Feb. 5, 1998

For more than three decades, the monkeys at the Henry Vilas Zoo have served
both the University of Wisconsin and Dane County.

They have served the university's interests as the subjects of behavioral
studies pursued by the UW's Primate Research Center. They have served the
county's interests as the residents of one of the most popular exhibits at
the county-operated zoo.

Now that federal research funding for UW studies involving the monkeys has
dried up, the university wants to ship 100 of the creatures to a facility
in Louisiana, where they could become the subjects of dangerous
experiments. The other 50 monkeys are slated to be sent to an
as-yet-nonexistent nature center in Thailand.

The county is interested in finding a way to keep the monkeys here, as
County Executive Kathleen Falk indicated in a letter to university
officials. Falk sought a 45-day delay in any transfer of the monkeys from
the zoo because, she determined, at least that much time was needed to find
an alternative to the UW's plans.

Since the university owns the monkeys, Falk needed a commitment by the UW
before she could go ahead with a plan to attract public and private support
for maintaining the zoo's monkey house.

Falk's request was reasonable, and it was disappointing that Graduate
School Dean Virginia Hinshaw, who oversees the UW's Regional Primate
Research Center, rejected the full 45-day delay without any good reason.

But Hinshaw offered a ray of hope, both in her decision to delay transfer
of the monkeys until at least March 2, and in her indication that the
university might agree to pay for the upkeep of the zoo's monkey house
through the end of the year.

Hinshaw says she wants a "firm commitment'' from the county to take over
responsibility for the care of the monkeys before the university will agree
to continue paying for the care of the monkeys. And we think that it will
be possible to get such a commitment by March 2.

What we hope, however, is that both the university and the county will
recognize an ongoing responsibility to keep these monkeys in Madison. That
responsibility is not a legal one, and there will be debate about whether
it is a moral one.

But at some fundamental level, these monkeys have become a part of Madison
-- just as the zoo and the university are a part of this community. Rather
than pointing fingers of blame and attempting to pawn off responsibility,
officials of the university and the county should recognize the sincere
desire of thousands of children and adults to keep the monkeys in Madison.

And they should act in consort to make that desire a reality.

Tell us what you think

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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:50:57 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:23:07 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [US] "Monkey proposal advances through county panel"
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"Monkey proposal advances through county panel"
The Capital Times
Madison, WI
US
Thursday, Feb. 5, 1998
Page 4A

-- Beginning --

Monkey proposal advances through county panel

A second committee of the Dane County Board has given its approval for
an official inquiry into retaining the UW monkeys at the Henry Vilas
Zoo.

The Public Works and Facilities Management Committee unanimously
approved the plan Tuesday night.  The resolution, introduced by
Supervisor Tom Stoebig, calls for the zoo Commission and the zoo
director to develop options for keeping the monkeys.

The Zoo Conunission approved the measure last week, and the Ways and
Means Committee is scheduled to debate the matter Feb. 11.

Pending the approval of all three committees, the resolution will go
before the full County Board on Feb. 19.  If approved by the board, a
second inquiry by the county, in addition to one by the county
executive, will be sparked into the possibilities of keeping at least
some of the University of Wisconsin monkeys at the zoo.

That study would have to be completed by March 1, according to the
resolution.

The UW, which previously announced plans to send the monkeys to a
Louisiana primate center and to Thailand, now says it would maintain the
monkeys through the end of the year if the county agrees to take care of
them after that time.

"The County Board meeting will be crucial," said Tina Kaske, executive
director of Alliance for Animals.

"We will need everyone to call their county supervisors and tell them
how much these monkeys mean to the entire county."

Debate by the County Board will likely reveal whether county politicians
have an interest in finding funds in the 1999 budget to pay for keeping
the monkeys at the zoo. ,

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     http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/#Issues


Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:43:48 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: [US] "Zoo monkeys need protection"
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"Zoo monkeys need protection"
Letter to the Editor
By Lesley Arena
The Capital Times
Madison, WI
US
Thursday, Feb. 5, 1998
Page 11A

-- Beginning --

Zoo monkeys need protection

Dear Editor: The situation with the Vilas Zoo monkeys is very
disturbing.  I have to ask some very disturbing questions:

   1.Why has there been no action by zoo director David Hall against the
UW Research Center, regarding the numerous violations of the 1989
agreement between the primate center and the zoo?  It is incredible to
me that no one has held the university or the primate center accountable
for this outrage.

2. Why is it that Hall shows absolutely no concern for the animals who
have lived at our zoo for so long?  He is quite willing to send them
away.  The monkeys that are slated to go to Tulane's research facility
will be used for invasive research.  Dr. Gerone, the Tulane director,
has admitted that whatever monkeys are not being used for breeding, will
be subject to research.  Also, any offspring of the Vilas Zoo monkeys
are going to be used for research.  The baby monkeys are taken from
their mothers soon after birth.  The research these monkeys face is
cruel and deadly.

After giving all these years of their lives to research, the surviving
Vilas Zoo monkeys deserve to be protected - either in our zoo, or in an
appropriate and safe place, such as a sanctuary.  If Hall is so uncaring
about animals at the zoo - isn't he in the wrong job?

   3.The university's argument for discarding these monkeys - that federal
funding has been discontinued - is inadequate.  The UW has admitted
selling monkeys from the Vilas Zoo group over the years, for research.
Others have been taken from the zoo and used in fatal research here at
the primate center.  The very least the UW ought to do is to provide for
humane care for the remaining monkeys.

Perhaps they can consider it as reparation to this community, for the
numerous cruel and fatal violations of their own agreement with the
zoo.  This university has received millions of dollars in the recent
past, for expansion of the Primate Research Center and the purchase of
new animals.  There is funding for new endeavors, but "no money
available" to care for animals who have been used for so many years, to
the benefit and profit of researchers and the university.

   4.If the university sees herpes B as such a threat, perhaps the entire
Primate Research Center ought to be shut down.  After all, if the public
is "in danger" from monkeys at the zoo, who are enclosed behind glass
and fencing, surely the hundreds of primates housed in the research
center must also pose a threat.

Lesley Arena
Madison

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        http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/#Issues


Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:00:02 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) Engler: He was 'shocked'
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from Amarillo Globe-News http://www.amarillonet.com/oprah/
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Web posted Monday, February 9, 1998 1:11 p.m. CT

Engler: He was 'shocked'
Cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey

By KAY LEDBETTER-Farm and Ranch Editor

"Shocked" best described the feelings Paul Engler had when he first watched
"the Oprah Winfrey Show" dangerous foods segment, the Amarillo cattleman
testified Monday in court.

Day 15 of the case between Engler and other cattle interests against
Winfrey and a guest on her show started late as attorneys from both sides
met with U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to discuss Lester Crawford,
a food safety expert, who had been testifying at the close of court Friday.

Crawford had a family emergency and was unable to return to the witness
stand this morning.

Interest in the trial appears to be waning. The media section was half
empty today, and there was enough seating in the general public area to
accommodate a government class from San Jacinto Christian Academy.

Engler, the CEO of Cactus Feeders Inc. and Cactus Growers, was called to
the stand, and was asked by his attorney, Joseph Coyne, to describe his
feelings when he first viewed the program the day it aired April 16, 1996,
while he was on a business trip in Chicago.

"I was shocked. I was shocked to hear the false statements that were being
made," Engler said. "Particularly painful was that we could expect an
epidemic that would make AIDS look like the common cold."

He said also there were statements throughout the program that implied that
beef wasn't safe.

"This was a product for over 50 years I had taken great pride in
producing."

Asked whether he thought these statements were directed at him, he said,
"without any question, they had to be talking about me as well all the rest
of the livestock producers," because Cactus Feeders is a major player in
the cattle industry.

During most of the morning, jurors were presented a history lesson in the
establishment of the cattle feeding industry in this area as well as the
location of the IBP plant here through Engler's efforts.

Jurors also received a lesson in trading cattle on the futures market with
Engler explaining who the players are, the terms used, why the futures
market is used and how to figure break-even costs of cattle.

Engler testified cattlemen know the risks associated with their industry.
The major risk is weather, followed by death losses due to diseases that
cannot be controlled by vaccines.

He also talked about the inherent market risks. Coyne asked Engler whether
selling a futures contract was not speculating.

"No, we're not speculating; we're establishing a price for future delivery;
we're decreasing our risk," he said.

He also discounted the defense's argument that other factors including
drought, exports and feed prices cause the drop in cattle prices.

He said the Winfrey show was the sole cause of the drop.

He speculates with his own money on the cattle markets but does not use
company money to do so.

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:00:19 -0500
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Web posted Monday, February 9, 1998 7:01 p.m. CT

Engler: Oprah's show was 'bomb' that led to drop in cattle prices

By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer

Lead plaintiff Paul Engler took the stand in the Oprah Winfrey
beef-defamation trial Monday, saying Winfrey was "the bomb" that led to a
severe drop in cattle prices.

Engler, testifying in the trial's 15th day, denied that other media reports
had a significant impact on the market.

"Ms. Winfrey's show was the bomb. That was the bomb that set everything
off," he said.

Winfrey hosted a show on dangerous foods on April 16, 1996. Included in the
broadcast was a 10-minute segment on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or
mad cow disease. The plaintiffs allege that Winfrey, her production company
and a guest made false and disparaging comments about beef during the BSE
segment.

Winfrey's attorney, Charles Babcock, led Engler through a list of factors
the defense contends hurt the market. Engler stuck to his position that
Winfrey was responsible.

Babcock referred to an April 4, 1996, press conference by Texas Agriculture
Commissioner Rick Perry in which Perry said businesses in the state had
been affected by media reports about mad cow disease.

Engler forcefully denied Babcock's assertions.

"The market reacted to `The Oprah Winfrey Show.' We have proof of that. The
market did not react to this (Perry's conference). The market was ignoring
this, or else it would have been going down," he said in a booming voice.

Babcock also tried to cast doubt on the amount of money Engler claims to
have lost because of the market's drop.

Engler testified earlier Monday that he had to hedge some cattle, or lock
in their price by selling contracts to ensure his selling price wouldn't go
lower. He said hedging cost his companies more than $4 million.

Hedging was a "catch-22," Engler said. Had prices gone back up, his company
would have lost out on some profit, he said.

"If we did not hedge and prices continued to go down, we probably would
have much worse damages than we are claiming," he said.

"You want (Winfrey) to pay for a business position you took?" Babcock
asked. "Absolutely," Engler answered.

Babcock pressed Engler, asking whether he wanted Winfrey to pay even
though:

* prices went back up on May 2, 1996;

* she did an April 23 follow-up show; and

* a beef industry survey still showed high consumer confidence in the
safety of American beef.

"Unfortunately, the damage was done on the original show," Engler said.

Engler is expected to return to the stand on Tuesday.

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:01:05 -0800
From: "Linda J. Howard" <[e-mail]>
To: "Steve Barney" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "AR NEWS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Letters Needed to Dane County (Wisconsin) Board of Supervisors
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LETTERS ARE NEEDED -
REQUEST THAT DANE COUNTY (WISCONSIN) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
SUPPORT RESOLUTION 241 WHICH COULD FREE THE VILAS PARK ZOO MONKEYS

Please send an e-mail to members of the Dane County, Wisconsin Board of
Supervisors (names and e-mail addresses below.)  Politely and respectfully
ask that the Board of Supervisors support Resolution 241, "Directing the Zoo
Commission and Zoo Director to develop options to retain the monkey colonies
at Henry Vilas Zoo."

If Resolution 241 passes, the 150 Vilas Park Zoo macaques will not belong to
the University of Wisconsin (or NIH!) any longer.  This is potentially a
precedent setting case, since no NIH sponsored monkey colony has been
relinquished to private stewardship.  Thank you for your help!

DANE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Kevin R. Kesterson <[e-mail]>
Ruth Ann Schoer <[e-mail]>
Helen Hellenbrand <[e-mail]>
Larry Olson <[e-mail]>
J. Michael Blaska <[e-mail]>
David M. Gawenda <[e-mail]>


[Sample Letter by Steve Barney]

Dear Dane County Board Supervisor:

Please vote in favor of Resolution 241, "Directing the Zoo Commission
and Zoo Director to develop options to retain the monkey colonies at
Henry Vilas Zoo," and keep the monkeys in the Henry Vilas Zoo until
arrangements can be made to either maintain them at the zoo permanently,
or to send them to sanctuaries such as the one in Thailand which is
currently under consideration by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research
Center.

Do this for the benefit of the State of Wisconsin, as well as the
citizens of Dane County, and the colonies of 150 rhesus macaque and
stump-tailed macaque monkeys which the Wisconsin Regional Primate
Research Center has owned and maintained at the Henry Vilas Zoo's monkey
roundhouse since 1963.

These particular monkeys have become near and dear to the Madison and
surrounding communities over the years.  They became famous celebrities
as the subjects of important best selling scientific publications about
their intimate lives (_Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in
Humans and Other Animals_, _Peacemaking among Primates_, both by Frans
de Waal).  Those publications have proven to the world that these
individuals have not only minds and personalities, but moral
personalities. They are intensely social animals, which suffer when
separated from each
other.

Besides the loss to Dane County and other Wisconsin residents, the
current plan to send the rhesus monkeys to the Tulane Regional
Primate Research Center, in Louisiana, is in violation of the spirit of
the current agreement between the WRPRC and Vilas Zoo, because Peter Gerone,
Director of the Louisiana Center, may use them in harmful experiments,
and will require three months of isolation in quarantine for each monkey
- a practice which is certain to cause intense suffering to the monkeys
because of their intensely social nature.  (You may ask Victor Reinhardt
(Madison) about the suffering this isolation will cause.  Victor is a
former veterinarian of the WRPRC, and spearheaded a national movement
away from individual caging of monkeys in primate labs).  This is
especially unacceptable in light of the admission by the University of
Wisconsin, despite denials by the WRPRC itself, that the WRPRC itself
violated the agreement, because this violation gives the WRPRC and the
University of Wisconsin an obligation to make up to the public and the
monkeys with a genuine show of good will by means of cooperative action
with Dane County and Wisconsin residents.

One of the missions of zoos, generally, is environmental education.
According to the most comprehensive scientific assessment of threatened
species ever produced (1996 World Conservation Union Red List of
Threatened Animals), "the highest proportion of threatened species are
in the orders that include monkeys and apes."  Don't make a mockery of
the environmental education mission of the Henry Vilas Zoo by allowing
these rare and precious individuals to be treated as if they are no more
than disposable tools for research.

Sincerely,
Steve Barney
1301 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901-2703
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]




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