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Join the Diane Rehm Show on NPR Wednsday February 1, 2012 from 11am-12noon EST. Guests will include HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle, USARK CEO Andrew Wyatt, Zuzana Kukol from Rexano Exotics and Tim Harrison. It will be a live call in show. Please call in with good questions. You can also email or Tweet questions in. It is a discussion, not a debate.
1-800-433-8850
drshow@wamu.org

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USARK

I listened. Parcelle is a very confident, very skilled speaker. Heck, if I did not know any better, I'd be agreeing with him as well. He constantly spoke over other panelists whenever he did not like what he was hearing. The radio host did nothing to stop it even when Wyatt protested at one point. Parcelle is passionate about what he is trying to achieve and he comes across as believable if you are a lay person. This is what we are up against. It's also very obvious he is against any compromise solutions at all and he will belittle his opposition, such as calling the scientists who disagreed with the Rhodda study as people who think they are scientists because they keep snakes.

KL

I listened to the show and agree this Humane Society spokesman was a professional speaker. Future discussions with him need ground rules agreed upon with the option to use a MUZZLE if he continues to chime in anytime he feels like it. We need to stand united with USARK as these folks are "Hell Bent" on taking us down.
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Richard -amazoa-

"Changes in behavior occur when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change."

Well, sence that one caller said he heard about a big snake in a river in Georgia they must be able to exspand North kinda sums up the mentallity of the folks. Its not going to be to hard for HSUS to get their way. Yep, hes a pro I should have called but I'm sure I would loose it on air. I'd of liked to ask Wayne about how the animals in the Wild are doing. He said that is were they belong. I'd say tell that to the turtles in Asia or the Burms that just lost their hide. Yea, they got it good. I think maybe he should go live in Cuba, this freedom thing hes against wont be such a irratation for him, and the environment is perfect, because the folks have NOTHING to get under his skin about. A world class underminder. We were the looser there bigtime. VM

Just listened to it. HSUS stated that it should be illegal to participate in activities that fall outside of the norms of society. How is that supposed to work? After all the average person does not become a president, CEO, engineer, Vet, doctor, scientist, or any other specialist. Should we discontinue all those professions? It is easy to make an argument, but apparently more difficult to make since.
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steve

On yesterday's show, USARK president Andrew Wyatt challenged HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle to donate some money to the newly created Burmese python initiative at savetheburms.org; Pacelle refused...

WYATT
11:42:46
So there's an initiative out there called the Burmese Python Initiative. It's at savetheburms.org where we've raised $150,000 to be able to house and care for these animals so that they don't end up being euthanized or out on the streets or whatever, so that they can have a safe place to go and be re-homed. And I would challenge Wayne to donate some money to the...
PACELLE
11:43:12
Yeah, we're gonna...
WYATT
11:43:14
...to the Burmese Python Initiative.
PACELLE
11:43:15
...we're gonna clean up the mess that you guys have created by blocking the laws, that you've created so much cruelty. You've created such ecological havoc causing our nation millions and millions of tens of millions of dollars because of your selfish pursuit...

Read the entire transcript here:
thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-02-01/exotic-animal-industry-us/transcript

Thanks for posting the transcript link.

Too bad it wasn't formatted as a debate...then Z and Andrew would have gotten equal time to Wayne who rudely interrupted them many times.
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Tim Cole
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