Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

Mad Cow Disease In Soil Lives On … And On [The Daily Green] New research shows that the prion — a mysterious infectious agent that is neither bacterium nor virus — is 700 times more infectious when combined with common minerals found in dirt. Federal Agency Agrees to Issue New Rules Protecting Whales from Fishing [...]

Rounded Up in the City, Then Coddled in Style [NY Times] The newest New Yorker to arrive [at Farm Sanctuary] is Lucky Lady, a lamb who was found tearing through the Bronx on June 13. Seeing her agricultural tags, the people who saved Lucky Lady concluded that she had escaped from a live animal market [...]

The fix is in for pet control [USA Today] Despite successful campaigns to persuade prospective owners to adopt shelter pets, about 7 million dogs and cats are euthanized in shelters every year, and there’s no evidence that adoptions will increase enough to close the gap, experts say. Australian Defense Department’s Plan To Kill Hundreds Of [...]

Dozens of dogs seized from ‘deplorable’ conditions [Newsday] A missing dog up for sale on an animal rescue Web site led Suffolk County police to a Medford house where they found more than 50 dogs in “deplorable condition” Wednesday, authorities said. Cockfighting supporters plan to sue state of New Mexico [The Albuquerque Tribune] While Bhatka [...]

Congratulations to all the animal rights activists that worked so hard to see this happen. Its time we get to work on such a bill here in Indiana. the following is from An Animal-Friendly Life: AB 1634–the California Healthy Pets bill that would make it mandatory to spay or neuter your animal companion by the [...]