A report released by the government department responsible for inspecting animal laboratories has revealed that more than 1,000 animals died in appalling conditions at a single UK establishment after a ventilation system failed. In another...
Posted 10 Dec 2014
The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), the sector’s key representative body, has told its 133 members that, from November 20, they must publicly declare their support for vivisection if they wish to remain within...
Posted 20 Nov 2014
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has helped fund a series of repulsive animal experiments that involved mice being deliberately given heart attacks, rats having their brains damaged and both species being killed by having their...
Posted 07 Nov 2014
Animal Aid is asking the public to stop and think before they support the ‘Movember’ initiative (which involves growing a moustache throughout the month of November), since some of the money raised is used to...
Posted 28 Oct 2014
The British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) attempt to distance itself from some of the cruel animal experiments uncovered by Animal Aid as part of its Victims of Charity campaign has triggered a major new exposé. This...
Posted 13 Oct 2014
September 22 marks the start of a criminal trial in London’s Southwark Crown Court that, supporters of the seven defendants claim, amounts to a concerted attack on non-violent grass roots anti-vivisection campaigning. It is argued...
Posted 21 Aug 2014
The Animals in Science Committee (ASC), which is responsible for advising the government on vivisection, has rejected several elements of a deeply disturbing government-commissioned report that downplayed the suffering of primates used in neuroscience research.
Posted 04 Aug 2014
Animal Aid has dismissed a ‘concordat on openness’, signed by 72 practitioners or advocates of animal research, as a manoeuvre to boost dwindling public confidence in vivisection and how it is regulated.
Posted 14 May 2014
To mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories (April 24), Animal Aid is challenging four prominent UK medical research charities to take part in a public debate about the moral and scientific merits of the...
Posted 20 Apr 2014
Monkeys used more than once in punishing experiments Made to develop uncontrolled movements and psychotic behaviour Canadian experiments co-funded by UK charity
Posted 07 Apr 2014