Vegetarian Star

Bob Barker is more than generous with his wealth when it comes to animal charities.

The vegetarian’s most recent donation has helped rescue several circus animals, including lions, monkeys and a horse, from Boliva after the country banned animals in circuses.

A group called Animal Defenders International performed the feat with Barker’s donation and has named a lion cub in his honor.

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Bob Barker has donated $250,000 to help Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California recover from a flood in December. The disaster robbed the center of $250,000 to $300,000 of damages and a sea lion that was rescued from the waters later died at an evacuation center.

“I welcome this opportunity to help the Pacific Marine Mammal Center resume operations as soon as possible,” said Barker. “However, I hope the public will continue to contribute generously to the Center to help treat the hundreds of seal and sea lion patients that will be in need of care this season.”

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Bob Barker (87)

• Mayim Bialik (35)

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Bob Barker has been named an honorary fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Barker is the first person in the entertainment industry to receive the award.

Through Barker’s generous donations, hundreds of law students at prestigious schools around the country can study animal law, including at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern, Duke, Georgetown, Virginia and Columbia.

“We cannot change the world for animals without also changing people’s ideas about animals. Almost single-handedly Bob’s sagacity and generosity have – in little more than a decade – propelled animals from being a marginal issue into the academic mainstream. This is a colossal achievement”, said Professor Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Barker joins a line of several honorary fellows that include Nobel Laureate for Literature, Professor J. M. Coetzee and Madame Jeanne Marchig, founder of the Marchig Trust for Animal Welfare.

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Lance Bass PETA

Lance Bass says we should all take a lesson from Bob Barker.

“You know when I was a kid watching ‘Price Is Right,’ I would always hear Bob [Barker] say, ‘Help control the pet population: Get your dogs spayed or neutered. People are not spaying and neutering like they should be, and there’s just so many dogs that really need a loving home.”

Bass stars in one of PETA’s many ads urging animal lovers to adopt to reduce the millions euthanized in shelters every year. But adoption is just one step, as Bass points out. Spaying and neutering a pet, especially a pet that ever comes in contact with other animals or goes outdoors is another important step in solving the unwanted animal population problem. Spaying and neutering does more than lessen the number of animals euthanized in shelters each year. It also provides health benefits for the animal. More on those benefits and the interview with Bass below.

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When it comes to fashion, Bob Barker knows what’s in style and it’s not fur.

During an interview with Stylist, the vegetarian and animal rights activist explained how his wife got him on the right track to what’s trendy.

“My wife stopped wearing fur 35 years ago, and she wasn’t trying to influence me, but by example she did. I had several leather jackets and coats with sheepskin that I gave away. I stopped wearing leather belts and then stopped wearing leather completely. And this was all before I became a vegetarian about 32 or 33 years ago.”

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Bob Barker‘s message to spay and neuter pets will surely live on forever…or until at least 2060.

The former Price Is Right host took part in a ceremony that buried items related to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Barker included a letter in the capsule that reminds people to help reduce the unwanted cat and dog population.

“It’s signed Bob Barker, October 28th, 2010, and the note says, ‘Have your pets spayed or neutered,” said the vegetarian and animal rights activist.

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PETA 30th Anniversary Gala

People love and hate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in equal numbers, but no one can argue the organization doesn’t get noticed and get its message out. This weekend on September 25th, the group will celebrate its 30th anniversary at a sold out gala in Hollywood where celebrities who have worked with the animal rights group like Dave Navarro, Glee’s Lea Michele and Bob Barker will be honored. The event will be streamed live on the Internet.

What exactly has PETA done in the past three decades besides strip people to promote vegetarianism? You’d be pleasantly surprised if you don’t track the group’s record, which is outlined in a document titled “30 Reasons to Celebrate PETA’s 30th Anniversary.”

• The first ever felony animal cruelty conviction was obtained against factory farm workers after undercover investigations at a North Carolina pig-breeding farm found workers beating pregnant sows with metal rods and sawing off a conscious animal’s legs.

• The group’s exposure of the exotic skin trade of snakes and alligators prompted several large companies, Nike, Cole Haan, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, and Overstock.com, to stop selling these products.

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