Honorary PETA Director, Bea Arthur Passes On

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Honorary PETA Director, Bea Arthur Passes On



People have lost one of the greatest comic actresses of all time, and animals have lost one of their all-time greatest defenders. An honorary PETA director and the winner of multiple PETA Humanitarian Awards, Bea Arthur joined PETA in 1987, when the Golden Girls did an anti-fur episode and Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White filmed a PETA anti-fur PSA on the set of the show.

A tireless advocate for animals, Bea campaigned against the force-feeding of ducks in the foie gras trade, travelling to London with PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, where she called on Harrod's to stop selling the cruelly made pâté. Bea also called for a boycott of KFC until it improves the way it raises and kills its chickens, campaigned against animal experimentation, spoke out about the abuse of animals on factory farms, and was a vocal opponent of the use of exotic animals in circuses.

She will be missed.

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1. She surely will be missed. I did not know of her PETA involvement.

Her star will shine all the brighter.

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2. Bea Arthur was a fantastic animal advocate. We will miss her for many reasons.

I'm very thankful for her both personally and in the name of what she did for the animals.

I hope that the invocation of the much hated PETA tag doesn't draw out the idiots.

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3. loved her.. love her..

RIP Bea

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4. She really was a classic

I didn't know about her animal-rights work, but it just goes to show what a great lady she must have been.

R.I.P., Bea Arthur.

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