Bob Barker Meets With Principal Chief To End Bear Displays In NC
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 30th, 2009 in Animal Issues, TV Hosts.
A letter gets your message across, but there’s nothing like face to face interaction.
Several weeks ago, Bob Barker wrote a letter to the Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation, asking for an end to the caged bear pits that serve as a tourist attraction in Cherokee, North Carolina.
On Tuesday, Bob met with Chief Principal Michell Hicks and five other members of the Tribal council, asking that the caged bears be turned over to an animal sanctuary.
The bears exist in walled enclosures rooted in the ground at three local attractions in Cherokee.
“To think that with as advanced as our civilization is now that there is any place in the United States were bears are kept in pits is just unbelievable,” said Barker. “Just picture yourself, if your life, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, month after month, was in a pit.”
Vegetarian Barker is part Cherokee himself and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota.
via news.yahoo.com
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