Bob Barker Pleads for Elephants' Release

Associated Press ^ | Sat Feb 11, 2006

[EveningStar]

I'm not an animal rights whacko but I do like elephants. :)

[Richard Kimball]

Barker's late wife was an animal rights activist. It was in memory of her that he began showing animals from the ASPCA on Price is Right, and also why he closes with "remember to spay and neuter your pets." I've always thought it was a nice tribute to her, even if he did start boinking all the Price is Right models shortly after she died.

I disagree with him on the elephants. Much of the work done by animal rights activists is actually antithical to their cause, just as the environmentalists do much harm to the environment (massive wild fires because they don't want fire breaks, etc.). Most modern zoos are run by people who love animals, and are well tended. They live longer than animals in the wild, and seldom are eaten by other animals. They get treatment for disease, and an infected foot isn't a death sentence.

Just as the animal rights activists protest rodeos, where bulls worth thousands are probably the best treated stock animals in the world, they protest zoos, because they compare the animal treatment to perfection, rather than how most other animals of their types live.

[presidio9]

Keep in mind that Barker's main point was that the new enclosure would be too costly, not that it was not sufficient. I like elephants too. I think these elephants would do a lot more good as ambassadors to some inner-city kid than they would in a retirement home in the middle of nowhere. No zoo is complete without a lion, a giraffe, a hippo and an elephant.

[EveningStar]

I haven't been to the zoo in years.

[presidio9]

If you have kids or nephews & neices, I reommend a trip tomorrow. I promise you you'll enjoy it.

[EveningStar]

miscellaneous ping

[Howlin]

They've lived in a zoo and now he wants to put them in the wild?

[EveningStar]

SoCal ping

[EveningStar]

Not the wild. Just some place where they could roam but the public couldn't see them. LOL.

[Dashing Dasher]

What's the difference between a zoo and a sanctuary?

[Howlin]

A sanctuary is like a game preserve, isn't it?

[Dashing Dasher]

Maybe this is part of the backlash against Republicans?

Snork! LOL!

[bikepacker67]

Better not mess with Bob Barker!

[EveningStar]

"elephant sanctuary"

[EveningStar]

Now we can all find out what an elephant sanctuary is and where they are. ;)

[presidio9]

The price is wrong beyotch.

[Fintan]

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"There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary," Barker said.

 

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[EveningStar]

ROFL!

[martin_fierro]

Barker denounced plans to build a 2-acre, $19 million exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo

[martin_fierro]

Ping to you, too to #39