Cambridge anti-vivisection protests make powerful impact
Our two days of action against animal experiments at Cambridge University have had a powerful impact, with excellent public engagement and strong local media coverage.
Posted 07 Mar 2014
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Home Office document reveals disturbing scale of research programme on pregnant animals
Animal Aid has obtained an official document revealing that the pregnant sheep experiment recently featured on our Victims of Charity website – and which was financially supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) – was...
Posted 25 Feb 2014
‘Macabre and repugnant’ charity-funded sheep experiment condemned
Pregnant sheep surgically mutilated Unborn lambs brain-damaged Cambridge University experiment part-funded by British Heart Foundation
Posted 13 Feb 2014
ASA’s ‘perverse’ ruling on anti-vivisection ad
Animal Aid has pledged to campaign more robustly than ever against the large-scale suffering involved in the breeding and use, in biomedical experiments, of genetically modified mice. The undertaking comes in response to a decision...
Posted 11 Feb 2014
Government exposes its lack of commitment to reducing animal research
Nearly four years ago, the government pledged to deliver a plan for reducing the number of animals used in experiments. Specifically, it said it would ‘end the testing of household products on animals and work...
Posted 07 Feb 2014
Animal Aid condemns ‘cruel and pointless’ creation of GM monkeys
Researchers in China have used a new genome editing procedure to create genetically modified (GM) macaques. These are the latest victims of a growing scientific trend that is based on faulty, over-simplistic science and has...
Posted 31 Jan 2014
Animal Aid calls for BBC to end its pro-vivisection propaganda
Last night’s (28 January) BBC report from Oxford University’s animal laboratory presented the public with a dishonest, overwhelmingly positive picture of animal research. The BBC now has a pressing duty to show the other side...
Posted 29 Jan 2014
Animal Aid launches innovative new anti-vivisection initiative
Animal Aid has launched a groundbreaking new online initiative, which marks the beginning of a critical phase in its campaign to stop medical charities funding vivisection.
Posted 13 Jan 2014
EU statistics show urgent need for openness in regulation of vivisection
The latest EU statistics show that the UK is the third largest user of animals in experiments amongst the 27 member states. The UK is a particularly ruthless user of mice, accounting for 16.5 per...
Posted 13 Dec 2013
System governing vivisection dealt devastating blow
The official regulatory system governing vivisection in Britain was dealt a devastating blow today with the publication of a report by an establishment scientist. Professor Steve Brown of the Medical Research Council was called upon...
Posted 10 Dec 2013