He did so because his wife, Dorothy Jo, had given up meat, too, and when she died in 1981, he decided to take on her passionate cause as his own. Longtime The Price is Right host Bob Barker is well known for his end-of-show sign-off, asking viewers “to help control the pet population and have your pets spayed or neutered.” Barker was an outspoken animal rights activist, ever since he became a vegetarian in 1979.
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