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A worm’s eye view

Animal Aid director Andrew Tyler comments on the 'animal league table'. Some arguments against animal cruelty are easier to make than others. Defending monkeys is less arduous than defending rats.

Posted 01 Mar 2002

Seriously deluded – about animal experiments

The following article, entitled 'UK patients group hits back at anti-vivisectionists', appeared on the BMJ website (www.bmj.com) on 23 February 2002. Read on for Animal Aid's response.

Posted 01 Feb 2002

Cloning animals – headline news

By Kathy Archibald, Animal Aid Scientific Researcher. It seems extraordinary that a little premature arthritis in one sheep should make headline news, as the unfortunate Dolly has done in the first week of 2002. One might...

Posted 01 Jan 2002

EU chemical testing – doctors and lawyers oppose plan

The organisation Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine (DLRM) oppose - on scientific grounds - an EU plan for a massive new programme of safety testing of chemicals using animals. What follows is the DLRM...

Posted 01 Jul 2001

Huntingdon’s 11th hour reprieve

The campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) has been top of the national news agenda. When the Royal Bank of Scotland threatened to call in its £22.5 million overdraft facility, financial ruin seemed certain for...

Posted 01 Mar 2001

Vivisection planning victory

Plans for a large extension to the animal research facility operated by Cambridge University at Girton, north of the City, suffered a major blow when permission was refused by South Cambridgeshire District Council on 3...

Posted 01 Mar 2001

Terrible despair of animals cut up in the name of research

This article by Lucy Johnston and Jonathan Calvert appeared in the Daily Express, on 21st September 2000. It is based on the 'Diaries of Despair' report published by Dan Lyons of Uncaged Campaigns. The Diaries...

Posted 21 Sep 2000