After years of conducting experiments on goats to determine the effects of extreme pressure and the ‘Bends’ on submarine crews, the MoD has bowed to pressure from MPs, the Southern Animal Rights Coalition and other...
Posted 07 Feb 2008
New undercover video footage once again exposes the appalling abuse to which animals are subjected in government-sanctioned research laboratories. Although filmed in Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, equivalent ‘procedures’ are carried out in Britain and...
Posted 21 Dec 2007
Two Animal Aid supporters have won a landmark Appeal Court victory over police attempts to criminalise them for running a high street information stall, from where they sought public support for a ban on primate...
Posted 09 Sep 2007
The High Court in London has ruled that the government has been underplaying the severity of suffering experienced by animals in laboratory experiments.
Posted 27 Jul 2007
An animal researcher, who was a recipient of an Animal Aid Mad Science Award (AAMSA), has failed in his attempt to get Animal Aid’s scientific consultant struck off the register of veterinary surgeons.
Posted 25 Jun 2007
Cheltenham Science Festival, Tipu Aziz and the Orwellian nightmare come true!
Posted 14 Jun 2007
Fourteen SPEAK campaigners who took part in a peaceful protest against the proposed Oxford University animal labs have walked free from court after the District Judge condemned Thames Valley Police for unlawfully stopping their protest...
Posted 01 Jun 2007
The value to human medicine of laboratory research using chimpanzees is being evaluated in a series of major studies. The first paper finds that such experiments contribute ‘little, if at all, to tangible human clinical...
Posted 20 Mar 2007
An eminent neuroscientist and practising neurosurgeon has stepped into the raging debate over animal experimentation to launch a blistering attack on Oxford University and other animal-using research institutions.
Posted 04 Jan 2007
As a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist with two decades of research experience, I feel qualified to contribute to the debate on non-human primate vivisection. The arguments of the Weatherall Committee defy much current scientific evidence, and...
Posted 04 Jan 2007