Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

Some good news for seals this week (they could really use it). The entire European Union has expanded its ban on pelts from baby seals to include all seal fur. Stavros Dimas, the EU’s environment commissioner, stated that an import embargo will be drafted within weeks.

If you don’t follow the campaign to stop the Canadian seal hunt, over 200,000 seals have been killed in Canada this year - 98 percent of them are pups between two weeks and three months old.

Source: Mail Online
Hat tip: Food Fight!

I’m excited to announce that I am going on tour with Microcosom Publishing. I will be promoting my new mini-comic, “The Ice Cream Man Cometh,” and talking about creative resistance. The comic, as some of you may have guessed, is based on Good Clean Fun’s song by the same name. It is about a group of young people who get creative and convince an ice cream vendor to sell only vegan goods. I will also be promoting two new zines from Deep Roots; one about the necessity of predator species and the other about why start an animal sanctuary. The comic and zines will be available on this website very soon.

Here is the information about the Tall Tales Tour. If you live in or near one of these cities, stop by the table and let me know you found out about the event through this blog. I’ll hook you up with something special. Hope to see you soon!

I just read over at The PETA Files that the small nation of San Marino has become the first independent state to ban the practice of animal experimentation. The citizen-supported bill was introduced in February of this year and was recently signed into law.

This is great! Sure, San Marino may be a small nation with little-to-no international influence, but they are a prime example of what can be accomplished when compassionate citizens take action. Although the media has paid no attention to this story, I predict that one day San Marino will be remembered and honored as the nation that first banned the morally corrupt and scientifically bankrupt practice of animal testing.

All that is left to say is thanks, San Marino, you’ve given hope to the world.

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 shelters set up for humans refused access to families who refused to leave their non-human companions. One shelter in Morgan County was completely engulfed with water and over 200 animals had to be evacuated by boat. Things are getting back to normal, but many still need your help.

Here is a message from the Monroe County Humane Association:

The MCHA has received many phone calls and e-mails regarding what is being done and can be done to help our neighboring communities, their shelters and animals that may be stranded by flood waters.

I really should have mentioned this earlier, but things have been busy around here. This weekend, June 6-8th, we are hosting the Stop I-69 Pledge Camp and Music Festival. I will write more later about why Deep Roots is excited to work with the Stop I-69 campaign, but for now here is some info about the Pledge Camp and Music Festival from stopi69.wordpress.com:

Join folks from around Indiana for a weekend of socializing, sharing skills, discussion, and music! It is a critical time for opposition to Interstate 69, so let’s get together, meet one another, and learn skills and information to help us stop this road. As a culmination of the efforts and energies of hundreds of people who have over the past year signed pledges to resist construction of the road, this camp is sure to be an exciting and empowering space. The Pledge Camp and the I-69 Music Festival have teamed up for a wonderful weekend of education and fun!