Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

No excuses, the Carnival is simply late. Despite the fact that I’ve been collecting blog post links for the past few months, I’m only going to include items from June. Enjoy! And remember to send your submissions for the 9th edition to chris [at] deeprootssanctuary.org or at blogcarnival.com.
I decided not to break [...]

I really should have mentioned this earlier, but things have been busy around here. This weekend, June 6-8th, we are hosting the Stop I-69 Pledge Camp and Music Festival. I will write more later about why Deep Roots is excited to work with the Stop I-69 campaign, but for now here is some [...]

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 here – where [...]

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 Gear Entanglement [...]

Environmentalism and animal liberation have always been inextricable in my mind. When you destroy or disturb ecosystems, the result is almost certainly the death of animals. The greater the destruction, the more animals that die as a result. The New York Times recently published an article about how ski resorts have had [...]