Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

Alaska’s only elephant set for sunny retirement [The West Australian] Ms Lampi said possible new homes for Maggie include sanctuaries in California and Tennessee. Indiana Shelter Euthanizing Animals Inhumanely, Ex-Workers Say [Channel 6 News] “They get all doped up, and they … run into the walls and everything,” Frye said. “It’s horrible to watch. It’s [...]

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 [...]

Mercy for Animals has released a new undercover investigation video from inside a House of Raeford Farms slaughterhouse in North Carolina. You can click here to read more information about the investigation. From MFA: Largely hidden from view, every year over 9 billion chickens and 250 million turkeys are raised on factory farms and killed [...]

Those of us in the U.S. are all too familiar with the Green Scare tactics being used to define animal rights activists as terrorists in this country. Last year, we saw the SHAC 7 found guilty of thought-crimes. The website was shut down and the six defendants are now serving differing prison sentences. Well, the [...]

We here at DRAS aren’t big fans of most of the big dog and cat food producers. While many, including us, have maintained that these products have been slowly contributing to illnesses such as kidney failure and cancer, it seems that millions of packages from Menu Foods are now being recalled due to reported kidney [...]