Editing Bob Barker (section)

===Animal rights===
Barker was a vegetarian.<ref name="oldenburg2013">{{cite news |last=Oldenburg |first=Ann |date=December 12, 2013 |title=Wish Bob Barker a happy birthday! |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/12/12/wish-bob-barker-a-happy-birthday/3956973/ |access-date=September 14, 2020}}</ref> In 1982, Barker began ending ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' episodes with the phrase: "This is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the [[Overpopulation in domestic pets|pet population]]{{snd}}have your pets [[spayed or neutered]]."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/17/how-did-bob-barker-help-influence-a-nation-to-neuter-their-pets/ |title=How did Bob Barker help influence a nation to neuter their pets? |date=October 17, 2018 |first=Joan |last=Morris}}</ref> Though Barker had already been dabbling in animal rights before meeting Burnet, his efforts became more aggressive during his relationship with her.<ref name=burnet2022interview/>

In 1987, Barker requested the removal of fur prizes for the [[Miss USA]] pageant and stepped down as host when the producers refused.<ref name=CBSbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/daytime/price/about/bios/cast_bios_bbarker.shtml |title=CBS Biography for Bob Barker |publisher=CBS |access-date=September 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321032422/http://www.cbs.com/daytime/price/about/bios/cast_bios_bbarker.shtml |archive-date=March 21, 2008}}</ref> In 1989, Barker and [[United Activists for Animal Rights]] publicly accused several media projects and the [[American Humane Association]] of animal mistreatment and condoning animal mistreatment, a tactic which {{Update inline span|resulted in a $10&nbsp;million suit against him and the UAAR|reason=What was the outcome of the lawsuit?|date=January 2022}} for libel, slander, and invasion of privacy.<ref name="SPEAKING">[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121207,00.html Speaking Up for 'Abused' Animals, Bob Barker Is Hit with a Lawsuit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192827/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121207,00.html |date=March 3, 2016}} – ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', September 18, 1989, Vol. 32, No. 12.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/08/31/bob-barker-is-sued/f5b2010d-50ff-4790-9800-0beefb61071d/ |title=Bob Barker is Sued |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 30, 1989}}</ref> The suit was finally settled by the insurer in 1994.<ref name="Guither1998">{{cite book|last=Guither|first=Harold D|title=Animal Rights: History and Scope of a Radical Social Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=231b9jGgqN4C&pg=PA174|year=1998|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-2199-5|page=174}}</ref>

Barker founded DJ&T Foundation in 1994, named after his late wife and mother, which has contributed millions of dollars to animal-neutering programs<ref>[https://variety.com/2006/scene/news/host-s-passion-for-pets-more-bit-than-bark-1117950232/ Host's passion for pets more bit than bark] – ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' Sunday September 17, 2006</ref> and funded animal rescue and park facilities all over the United States.<ref name=palma>{{cite web |url=http://www.christinepalma.com/2007/06/08/bob-barker-host-of-price-is-right-retires-after-50-years/ |title=Bob Barker host of 'Price Is Right' retires after 50 years |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211034431/http://www.christinepalma.com/2007/06/08/bob-barker-host-of-price-is-right-retires-after-50-years/ |date=June 8, 2007 |archive-date=December 11, 2008 |first=Christine |last=Palma |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2004, Barker donated $1&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1|2004|r=1|fmt=c}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) to [[Columbia Law School]] to support the study of animal rights.<ref>{{cite web|date=December 2004|title=Columbia Law School: Bob Barker Gives Law School $1 Million for Animal Rights Law |url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2005_older/2004/nov/bobbarker_gift |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624024624/http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2005_older/2004/nov/bobbarker_gift|archive-date=June 24, 2010 |access-date=September 4, 2012 |publisher=Law.columbia.edu}}</ref>

In 2009, Barker wrote a letter about three businesses in [[Cherokee, North Carolina]], asking them to close their bear exhibits.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theonefeather.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/6-24-20091.pdf |title=TV Icon Objects to Bear Exhibits in Cherokee |date=June 24, 2009 |first=Scott |last=McKie |publisher=The Cherokee One Feather |access-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623113349/https://www.theonefeather.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/6-24-20091.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> He threatened to not attend the 2009 Game Show Awards, where Barker was to receive a lifetime achievement award, because [[Betty White]] would be attending. Although Barker had previously worked with White,<ref name=palma /> he was feuding with her over the treatment of an elephant at the [[Los Angeles Zoo]]. White instead did not attend and pre-recorded her comments that she was scheduled to make about another awardee, [[Mark Goodson]].<ref name="TVsquad">{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Danny |title=Bob Barker almost a no-show at Game Show Awards because of feud with Betty White |url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/05/30/bob-barker-almost-a-no-show-at-game-show-awards-because-of-feud/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602025345/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/05/30/bob-barker-almost-a-no-show-at-game-show-awards-because-of-feud/ |archive-date=June 2, 2009|access-date=September 4, 2012 |date=May 30, 2009|publisher=Tvsquad.com}}</ref> That same year, Barker donated $1&nbsp;million (equivalent to $1.4&nbsp;million in 2021) to the [[University of Virginia Law School]] to support the study of animal rights. He made similar donations to [[Harvard Law School]], [[Stanford Law School]], [[Georgetown University Law Center]], [[Duke University School of Law]], [[Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law]], and [[University of California, Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Martha |last=Neil |date=January 13, 2009 |work=ABA Journal |url=https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/the_price_is_right_bob_barker_gives_1m_for_new_animal_law_program_at_virgin |title=The Price is Right: Bob Barker Gives $1M for New Animal Law Program at Virginia}}</ref>

In 2010, the [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]] announced that it had purchased and outfitted a ship to interdict [[Japanese whaling]] operations in the [[Southern Ocean]] using $5&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|5|2010|r=1|fmt=c}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) provided by Barker. The ship was then named the [[MY Bob Barker|MY ''Bob Barker'']], and its existence was first revealed when it helped discover the location of the Japanese whaling fleet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100105-1.html |title=The Time is Right for Bob Barker to Rescue the Whales |date=January 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721235545/http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100105-1.html |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |publisher=Sea Shepherd Conservation Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html |first=Ian |last=Urbina |title=A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 28, 2015 |access-date=October 1, 2020}}</ref>

Barker participated in several [[PETA]] public service announcements over the years, including one that claimed that vegan diets prevent Alzheimer's disease.<ref name=causesofdeath/> In 2010, he donated $2.5&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|2.5|2010|r=1|fmt=c}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) toward the purchase of office space for the organization in Los Angeles. The Bob Barker Building opened in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://abc7.com/archive/8573763/ |title=Bob Barker Building will be PETA's West Coast hub |website=ABC7 Los Angeles |date=March 9, 2012}}</ref>