Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

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 [...]

Calf roping: Animal abuse or all-American sport? [Santa Cruz Sentinel]
“While the humans in rodeos have a choice as to whether they are willing to place themselves in danger, the animals don’t have a choice”
Animal rights group at odds with circus, village [Chicago Heights Star]
A national animal rights group is calling on Steger lawmakers to ban [...]

AR Groups Break Silence on Amazon.com’s Foie Gras Sales, Urge Boycott [Farm Sanctuary]
You can help put an end to foie gras cruelty by cutting the supply chain! In the United States, Amazon.com hawks foie gras produced at Elevages Perigord. Please put the power of your purse to work to stop this intolerable cruelty, and tell [...]

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 is Kosher [...]

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 [...]