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Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Cow's week in Review with Ryan cow Calaian. Here's

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Speaker 1: cal A troop of forty three monkeys escaped research facility

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina earlier this month, and as of this recording,

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Speaker 1: about half of them remain at large. The cartload of

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Speaker 1: primates managed to free themselves from the Alpha Genesis Primate

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Speaker 1: research facility in Yamassi, South Carolina. Regular Cow's Weekend Review

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Speaker 1: listeners might assume those pesky animal's rights activists are behind

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Speaker 1: that shenanigan, but right now that doesn't appear to be

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Speaker 1: the case. Could be regular old fashioned monkey business. The

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Speaker 1: Alpha Genesis CEO reports that a caretaker failed to secure

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Speaker 1: a door and the forty three female Recis macaque monkeys

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Speaker 1: just wandered out. The young monkey's only weigh about seven pounds,

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Speaker 1: and veterans as at the company assure the public that

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Speaker 1: they don't carry disease and haven't been used in any testing.

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Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that even though the jail break

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Speaker 1: might conjure images of Planet of the Apes, the monkeys

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Speaker 1: are actually staying pretty close to the facility. The local

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Speaker 1: police department reports that they're hanging out in the wooded

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Speaker 1: area along the fence line of the facility, eating food

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Speaker 1: from caretakers and interacting with other monkeys still behind bars. Still,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to see a group of monkeys in

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Speaker 1: a pine tree, it's another to capture them without hurting them.

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Speaker 1: The primates escaped on November seven, and it wasn't until

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Speaker 1: November ninth that Alpha Genesis reported capturing a single monkey.

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Speaker 1: But then around five pm the next day, the police

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Speaker 1: said that an additional twenty four monkeys had been safely

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Speaker 1: returned to their prisons or homes. It's unclear how they

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Speaker 1: managed to capture so many at once, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the intrepid journalists down in you MASSI will figure it out.

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Speaker 1: One last thing, Americans will never pass up the chance

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Speaker 1: to rubberneck, especially when wild animals are involved. We see

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Speaker 1: this every day in our national parks, but apparently it's

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Speaker 1: been a problem in this case as well. The Umassi

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Speaker 1: Police Department has been begging people to stay out of

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Speaker 1: the woods where the monkeys are hanging out, and they've

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Speaker 1: also issued several pleas to please stop flying drones in

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Speaker 1: the area. The vets are trying to keep the monkeys calm,

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Speaker 1: and that's tough to do with would be wildlife photographers

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Speaker 1: any more updates on the Great Escape, Monkey Free Monkey

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Speaker 1: Doo will keep you in the loop, you know that,

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Speaker 1: And just a reminder good reading even as an adult.

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Speaker 1: Some aer the monkeys started this way, or you know,

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Speaker 1: in a similar fashion. Some kid could be on tracked

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Speaker 1: making a buck this summer. Anyway, this week we've got politics, beavers,

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Speaker 1: public lands, and so much more. But first I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you about my week. And my week was great.

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Speaker 1: Hike some old stomping grounds and a couple different corners

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Speaker 1: of the state. It was brutal blow down actually some

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Speaker 1: cold weather frozen ground, but adventurous to say the least.

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Speaker 1: Met up with some old friends, met some new friends.

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Speaker 1: Rode on that mule that bit my butt. This summer.

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Speaker 1: She and I's relationship has not changed much. Spotted some bulls,

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Speaker 1: spotted some bucks, got home late, got up early, didn't

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Speaker 1: pull the trigger on anything. Hoping to be outdoor as

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Speaker 1: soon as I can, to do it all over again,

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Speaker 1: trying out new spots this weekend, trying to connect with

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Speaker 1: that old dark horn mule deer buck. Then we'll get

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Speaker 1: to the birds. The poor snort report is healed up

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Speaker 1: and antsy is all get out. I'm feeling like a

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Speaker 1: bad dog owner. So much to do, so little time.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I was out on big public Lands BLM

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Speaker 1: for a service and Montana State Ground. That tapestry of

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Speaker 1: ownership weaves together a heck of a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 1: for those willing to go. They are near and dear

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Speaker 1: to my heart, which shouldn't surprise anybody here. Only a

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Speaker 1: couple weekends left that big old general big game season. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about quackers and you want to check

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Speaker 1: out a cool trip I did in Arkansas, head over

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Speaker 1: to the meat Eater YouTube channel. Give it a look.

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Speaker 1: It was my first and thus far only experience hunting

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Speaker 1: a timber hole for ducks. Really fun trip. Big thanks

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Speaker 1: to the Whitaker family for being our hosts on that

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Speaker 1: one and sharing an amazing family property with us and

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Speaker 1: all their traditions and local history and knowledge. Super awesome,

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Speaker 1: really really cool. Maybe one day we'll do it again.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the election desk. Whatever you think about

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Speaker 1: ballot initiatives that we've covered on this podcast, and I

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Speaker 1: think the Cow's Week in Review audience deserves some credit. First,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, Colorado voters roundly rejected a ballot measure

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Speaker 1: Fifty five point two percent of Colorado voters were about

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Speaker 1: one to a half million people rejected Prop One twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. Polling results indicate that the strongest opposition came

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Speaker 1: Jackson County opposed eighty seven percent to thirteen percent. As

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Speaker 1: welcome news to hunters and science based wildlife management advocates

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Speaker 1: who have spent over two point eight million dollars to

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Speaker 1: done for wildlife. Virtually every hunting and angling group nationwide

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Speaker 1: support from the Denver Post. The other side outspent us

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Speaker 1: from well known individual like Robert Redford, Jane Goodall, and

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Speaker 1: Carol Baskin of Tiger King fame, but that wasn't enough

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Speaker 1: to overcome the pro hunting side, and we walked away

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Speaker 1: with the victory. This is a huge win for hunting rights.

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Speaker 1: Good on all organizations and individuals who spent time and

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Speaker 1: only source of good election news for hunters and anglers.

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Speaker 1: A hair over sixty seven percent of Florida voters pulled

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Speaker 1: hunt and fish in the state's constitution. Amendment two stipulates

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Speaker 1: the amendment forcefully asserts this right, it also clarifies that

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Speaker 1: it does not limit the authority granted to the Fish

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Speaker 1: in Wildlife Conservation Commission. As in Colorado, animal rights activists

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Speaker 1: either in the state constitution or in statute. Nothing will

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Speaker 1: change in Florida's hunting and fishing regulations, but it will

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Speaker 1: hunting seasons like we've seen in California in Washington State. Finally,

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, a full seventy seven percent of voters approved

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Speaker 1: a constitutional amendment that renewed dedicated lottery funding for the outdoors.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota State lottery generates tens of millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: every year for the Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund,

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Speaker 1: but residents must vote to renew that flow of money

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Speaker 1: every few decades. This trust fund is used for clean water,

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Speaker 1: call this a win. There will be more threats to

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Speaker 1: hunting and fishing in Colorado and in other states, and

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Speaker 1: we'll tackle those as they come up. For now, give

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Speaker 1: a reminder that if hunters stand up for their rights

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Speaker 1: in good job, but I'm not letting you off the hook.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the beaver desk, the Minnesota state legislature

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Speaker 1: recently passed a law that has beaver trappers scratching their heads.

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Speaker 1: riding at the meteater dot Com. Minnesota Statute ninety seven

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Speaker 1: Natural Resources Bill, the statute now includes the following sentence,

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Speaker 1: human consumption of a retained beaver is prohibited. The law,

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Speaker 1: in other words, prohibits people from eating nuisance beavers even

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Speaker 1: when they're legally trapped. Obviously, if they're still moving around,

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Speaker 1: to know why this language was added to the bill,

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Speaker 1: expressed confusion during the debate on the bill, saying, quote,

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Speaker 1: It's fine. No one is going to get in trouble

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Speaker 1: the bill. If you need beaver eating reference, that's not

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Speaker 1: the search phrase I would use. But I would go

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Speaker 1: over to the meat Eater YouTube channel Brad Leoni and

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Speaker 1: I made a super killer green chili out of the

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Speaker 1: new Outdoor Cookbook with beaver fe that to anybody darn

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Speaker 1: good stuff. Minnesota Star Tribune spoke with state Legislative Reference

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Speaker 1: Librarian Molly Nils, who says there's no clear account of

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Speaker 1: remain in the bill because quote, there hasn't been enough

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Speaker 1: research about beaver consumption to tell if it's safe. If

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Speaker 1: Senator whether the last I don't know, thousands of years

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Speaker 1: guess there's been a big push in recent years to

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