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Come on down, you're the next contestant to earn a degree in animal rights!
While it may seem far-fetched to some, this may just be on the horizon and may happen within a few years to come. Especially since Bob Barker has backed the idea by helping to finance the start of it all.
That's right, this past week famous former game show host Bob Barker donated $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University, to establish an animal rights professorship that will hopefully lead to a full undergraduate degree program in animal rights.
Barker has been a long time vegetarian and animal rights activist and had already donated $1 million last year to the school to establish the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights, according to the Associated Press. That donation led to a course in animal ethics at the college. In addition to these contributions, he has also established animal right law endowment funds at eight law schools.
This is great news, not only for the animals, but those of us who are passionate about animal rights and would like to learn more about it in a professional setting, as well as be able to apply it to our careers. Good things will come out of his donation, there is no doubt. Kudos to Barker for his long-lived compassion toward animals and for his generosity.
Check out the Drury University video, where the donation is discussed.
See also: The Impact of Humane Education
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