Yesterday (31st March) in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (AGRI), MEPs backed a series of amendments that seriously weaken proposals from the European Commission to regulate animal testing across Europe. Some measures could set animal...
Posted 01 Apr 2009
A major new public opinion poll conducted in six European Union countries, demonstrates massive support for a ban on primate research and the end of the secrecy that governs the twelve million experiments conducted on...
Posted 12 Mar 2009
On December 23rd 2008, four of the five anti-vivisection activists on trial at Winchester Crown Court were found guilty of 'conspiracy to blackmail' after a 14-week trial. They were accused of harassment against employees of...
Posted 05 Jan 2009
This week, political campaigner and Animal Aid patron Tony Benn joined a peaceful demonstration outside the newly opened Oxford University animal research laboratory.
Posted 11 Nov 2008
A controversial European Commision proposal to allow drug companies to communicate directly with patients, which was due to be presented this week, has been postponed indefinitely.
Posted 31 Oct 2008
Just four years ago, Acomplia was hailed in the national press as a wonder slimming pill. Now it has been withdrawn by the authorities because of a high risk of serious psychiatric disorders leading, in...
Posted 24 Oct 2008
National campaign group Animal Aid today (September 3) calls on government to crack down on drug industry practices that put profits before all else.
Posted 03 Sep 2008
Scientists have spoken out against the reliability of animal tests in two separate instances this week.
Posted 15 Aug 2008
Psychiatric Disorders in Chimps Subjected to Lab Experiments Parallel Those in Human Torture Survivors, Study Finds American Physician Presents Data at the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society in Edinburgh; Findings Could Support EU Proposals...
Posted 06 Aug 2008
Key US government agencies this week have issued the clearest and most authoritative statement to date that animal testing does not work. Under a five-year programme, government laboratories will start moving to non-animal methods such...
Posted 15 Apr 2008