Notorious killer of race horses, the Cheltenham Festival, starts today!
Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.  
Posted 11 Mar 2025

Posted on the 18th July 2019
Today, a government report reveals how more than 3.4 million animals were used for the first time in experiments, in Great Britain, in 2018. The animals, including monkeys, horses, cats, mice, dogs and fish, are the victims of an industry built on flawed science and immeasurable suffering.
The report gives no meaningful detail of what happens to the animals. It is full of charts, graphs and statistics which belie the fear, terror and suffering that the animals will have undergone. Despite the lack of meaningful detail, we know that:Â
‘Year after year we are told the top-line figure of animals used in experiments, which hides a truly astounding amount of pain, suffering, distress, terror and death. We are talking about more than 3.4 million lives, many full of fear and pain, cut brutally short all because of a lazy reliance on outdated science.‘Animal Aid is calling on all of those involved in animal research to see the futility of this work and turn their hands to human-relevant, humane science instead. This would benefit not only human patients and their families, but millions of animals, too.’Â
Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.  
Posted 11 Mar 2025
Today, our anti-dairy advert heads into cinemas. The advert, which has been airing on Channel 4 and Sky TV for the last three weeks, highlights the systemic suffering of dairy cows and calves and urges...
Posted 07 Mar 2025