My last piece on Huffington Post (cross-posted here), about the efforts by animal activists to halt construction of the Los Angeles Zoo’s new elephant habitat, sparked more debate than anything I’ve previously written. As I’ve followed the firestorm of comments here and in other media outlets, I’ve been increasingly struck by what has become the rallying cry of Los Angeles’s anti-zoo crowd: “Free Billy.”

It’s cute and catchy, but utterly disingenuous.

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