PETA mourns loss of pet advocate, Bea Arthur

Bea Arthur had a truly golden heart and will be sorely missed by everyone at PETA. She joined our organization in 1987, when the Golden Girls did an anti-fur episode, and because of her unending compassion and tireless efforts to make the world a kinder place, she won multiple Humanitarian Awards.

Bea never missed a chance to help stop animal suffering. She placed ads in playbills calling for theater patrons to have a change of heart and donate their furs to PETA, encouraged people to boycott KFC until it stops scalding chickens alive, and used her eminent voice to speak about the abuse of animals in laboratories, circuses, movies, and on factory farms. Her dying wish was for people to stop eating foie gras, which is cruelly made by forcefeeding ducks and geese until their livers expand as much as 10 times their normal size.

We ask Bea's fans to please keep her kindhearted spirit alive by opting for alternatives to foie gras and showing compassion for all animals. For easy ways that you can help animals, please www.PETA.org.
Dan Mathews
Senior vice president
of campaigns
People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals
Norfolk, Va.