Bob Barker is stepping up to the plate once again and getting involved in animal welfare issues.
Barker recently donated $1 million to Drury University to establish the Dorothy Jo Barker Professorship in Animal Rights. The program, which is named after his late wife, will offer intense course study on animal issues like cruelty and philosophy.
Barker [...]
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As many Ecorazzi readers know, besides animal production being hell for Planet Earth, it’s also not too grand for the animals. That’s why a slew of well-known stars donated their John Hancock to help reduce the cruelty.
Stars like Kim Basinger, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Maher, Bob Barker, Emily Deschanel, Fred Willard, Ginnifer Goodwin, James Cromwell, Kristen Bell, [...]
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Famous game show host Bob Barker recently took to CNN.com to blog about a community of bears that need our help.
Earlier this year, Barker was contacted by Rep. Bill Young of Florida after he and his family visited a roadside zoo on a trip to Cherokee and witnessed a pack of bears living in deplorable [...]
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Somebody give Bob Barker a microphone (preferably a long, skinny one), this guy’s got something to say.
Continuing his animal advocacy work, Barker is protesting three cruel tourist attractions in Cherokee, North Carolina.
According to PETA.org, the attractions in question keep bears confined to “desolate concrete pits in which they pace back and forth, walk in endless circles, cry [...]
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20 years is a lonnnnnngggg time, ya’ll!
As a 25-year-old it’s hard for me to imagine doing anything for that many years, but on Saturday, March 14th, the gang at Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) is celebrating 2 decades of success at their star-studded 20th Anniversary Gala!
ARFF was founded in 1989 to promote and protect the rights [...]
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After more than two years of lobbying to rescue Billy the elephant from the LA Zoo, Bob Barker and a host of other celebrities and organizations have lost the fight. The City Council voted Wednesday to finish a $42 million elephant exhibit and keep its lone pachyderm at the zoo. Earlier in the week, the [...]
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If you are/were a regular Price Is Right watcher, I’m sure you remember Bob Barker’s famous reminder at the end of each show to spay and neuter your pets. Well what you might NOT know is that Bob’s involvement with animal welfare goes far beyond service announcements.
Barker has donated a million dollars to the University [...]
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Bob Barker and Lily Tomlin are putting a smile on my face this morning as they campaign against a new elephant exhibit under construction at the Los Angeles Zoo.
“How many elephants have to die at the Los Angeles Zoo before the zoo comes to terms with the fact that it is impossible to have elephants [...]
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Yesterday, we told you about art-painting elephants in Indonesia and Thailand selling their work to help benefit protection and habitat for those still in the wild. Today, word comes that Alicia Silverston, Bob Barker, Robert Culp and Esai Morales have all joined LA Councilman Tony Cardenas in an effort to move elephants from the Los [...]
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Who says animal rights is just for young people? With stars like Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Miley Cyrus all rocking the veggie lifestyle, it’s easy to think that the meat-free world is a young man’s game. But there’s a whole culture of AARP reading, wrinkle cream purchasing vegetarians who still remember what it was [...]
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