Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

For years, animal rights activists have argued that testing on animals provides skewed data at the cost of millions of lives. Well it seems that the National Institute of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency have finally came to the same conclusion. “There are differences between species. We are not rats and we are not [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]