Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

This video from current_, entitled Good Night Tex, is a heartbreaking look at the euthanization of shelter animals through the eyes of the one doing the euthanization. The video does an excellent job at showing just how important it is to stop breeding and start spaying and neutering your companion animals (and start adopting shelter [...]

I was going to write a response to all the media attention that has been given to the case of [tag]Ellen Degeneres[/tag], [tag]Mutts and Moms[/tag], and Iggy the dog, but it looks like I was scooped by a fellow abolitionist. On a personal note, let me say that one of my companion animals comes from [...]

Bringing Moos and Oinks Into the Food Debate [NY Times] As Farm Sanctuary has grown, so too has its influence. Soon, due in part to the organization’s work, veal calves and pregnant pigs in Arizona won’t be kept in cages so tight they can’t turn around. Eggs from cage-free hens have become so popular that [...]

Go vegetarian to save money [MSN] Staples such as rice, corn and beans can make trips to a grocery store less expensive. But the biggest savings may come in health-care costs years later. One city’s fight over biomed plans [Christian Science Monitor] When Covance, a multinational drug-testing company, elected to build a $44 million laboratory [...]

Birthing bears head for land as Arctic ice gets scarcer [San Francisco Chronicle] Increasing numbers of pregnant polar bears are coming to land to give birth instead of staying on the thinning Arctic sea ice, a trend that signals a bleak future for their population there, a U.S. Geological Survey study has found. Not Everything [...]