Bob Barker gives university $1 million to promote animal rights curriculum
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Former television game show host Bob Barker, who ended episodes of “The Price Is Right” by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury University to establish a professorship on animal rights that he hopes will lead to a full undergraduate degree program.
Barker, who graduated from the small liberal arts school in 1947 with a degree in economics, said Tuesday that he hopes the school will eventually be able to offer a program of studies that would train them to be animal rights activists and to respect animals.
“I think some students would become full-fledged animal rights activists,” Barker said. “Some will become lawyers and doctors who will always be interested in animal rights. And some will have more respect for animals.”
(He’s a vegan too.) This news makes me so happy!!! I’d love to get a degree in animal rights.
Warms my heart :)
