Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

The Chicago City council voted yesterday to overturn its two-year ban on foie gras. The foie gras ban had been tauted as a big victory for animal rights activists, so what does this current decision mean? I don’t really think it means much of anything, to be honest. Well, it means that thousands of waterfowl [...]

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 [...]

The blog zenhabits recently published a really good list of the “Top 20 Motivational Hacks“. I know this isn’t directly animal rights related, but as activists it is important for us to stay motivated in order to keep doing what we do (and to keep being successful). So in the name of happy and healthy [...]

I just bought Hillary Rettig’s The Lifelong Activist, so you can expect a full review soon. But in the meantime, I thought I’d share the following list from Rettig highlighting ten ways to avoid activist burnout. Although a simple list, it is very insightful and one that i suggest every activist post in a visible [...]

Once i get some time to focus on this site, i plan to create a section for this topic and to write some original pieces. But since i’m already a day late for Blog Against Sexism Day, i thought it would be best to just put up a list of resources for more information. Much [...]