The Scottish Government has passed a law of Criminal Vicarious Liability to ensure that those who direct or turn a blind eye towards the persecution of birds of prey can be held to account by...
Posted 12 Dec 2011
Animal Aid supporter, Dr Steve Jones, shares his views on the use of the whip in racing
Posted 01 Dec 2011
Sunday's South West Christmas Without Cruelty Festival was a huge, upbeat success. Organised by Animal Aid and staged at the Corn Exchange in Exeter, our special crowd-pulling guest was Benjamin Zephaniah, the nation’s favourite performance...
Posted 29 Nov 2011
The first ever fall in Cancer Research UK’s annual income, announced this week, coincides with Animal Aid’s call for people to boycott the charity until it stops funding animal experiments. Animal Aid’s fully referenced scientific...
Posted 29 Nov 2011
Today (November 23rd), Animal Aid is making public a series of photographs of a pig taken inside Cheale Meats slaughterhouse in Essex.
Posted 23 Nov 2011
To mark 100 years of Cheltenham's National Hunt Festival, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum organised an exhibition, entitled Horse Parade, featuring 10 sculptures of horses by national artists.
Posted 17 Nov 2011
Thirty-one days into the new whip rules being implemented, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has for a second time succumbed to pressure from whip-happy and abusive jockeys.
Posted 11 Nov 2011
As part of its high-profile Victims of Charity campaign - which calls on the public to withhold financial support from medical research charities that fund animal experiments - Animal Aid has launched a new webpage...
Posted 03 Nov 2011
Following public outrage at the death of two horses in the 2011 Grand National, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) undertook a review of the event that was ‘designed to continue enhancing the safety and welfare...
Posted 02 Nov 2011
By giving in to the petulant complaints by jockeys about the new whip rules, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has again demonstrated that it doesn’t have the courage, competence or strategic intelligence to act as...
Posted 21 Oct 2011