Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

As we posted last month, HB1258 passed the Indiana House of Representatives. The bill has now entered Senator Brent Steele’s (Bedford) Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters. For this bill to pass, it must first pass through this committee, and then through the full Senate. Time is running out in this legislative session and [...]

House Bill 1468, known as the Puppy Mill Bill, passed the Indiana House last week in a landslide vote of 81 to 14! Thank you to everyone that contacted their representative. This vote would not have been nearly as successful without you. The bill has now entered the Senate Committee on Corrections, Criminal and Civil [...]

The floods in southern Indiana have been devastating. Our field was under six feet of water. All of us at Deep Roots were well above the flood waters, but not all others were as lucky. Animals throughout the region are in need of your help. In some cases, companion animals were stranded. In others, emergency [...]

from HSUS: Measures to protect pets from being sold for experimentation, and also from the horrors of dogfighting, are being considered right now for inclusion in the final Farm Bill. A small committee will decide the fate of these provisions, and you live in a district that has more influence than others in the country. [...]

From KOMO TV: Researchers implant coils on the monkeys’ eyeballs, thread wires up the skull and put a metal cylinder – sometimes two – into holes drilled in the monkey’s skull. Through public disclosure requests we obtained thousands of pages of internal e-mails and reports from the UW and federal agencies. Some of the surgeries [...]