The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) was unveiled in draft form this week by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, and...
Posted 12 Feb 2010
Last night (Nov 9th) at the Hertsmere Borough Council Executive meeting the issue of whether DEFRA should be permitted to cull monk parakeets on Council-owned land was finally decided in favour of the birds.
Posted 27 Jan 2010
Welsh Assembly Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has today (25th March) announced a cull of badgers in West Wales. She said that there will be an ‘intensive action area’ covering 200 square kilometres in Pembrokeshire,...
Posted 25 Jan 2010
Researchers from the British Trust for Ornithology and Natural England published this month results of a study into whether grey squirrels have a negative impact on 38 woodland bird species. Such an accusation has often...
Posted 25 Jan 2010
On Sunday, details emerged concerning shocking experiments being conducted on live pigs at Porton Down, a secretive military research centre in Wiltshire. In a series of tests, 18 live pigs were placed just a few...
Posted 25 Jan 2010
In November, we reported that, according to the farming trade press, hundreds, if not thousands, of sheep and cattle perished in the floods that battered Cumbria.
Posted 08 Jan 2010
Part 1: Neck Dislocation Two of the slaughtermen dislocate the necks of stunned sheep immediately after ‘sticking’. We understand that this constitutes a breach of the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (WASK), Schedule...
Posted 11 Dec 2009
Three slaughtermen have been suspended from a Soil Association-approved abattoir following an undercover investigation by Animal Aid that reveals what the government regulatory body, the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), describes as ‘clear evidence of breaches...
Posted 11 Dec 2009
The Soil Association’s (SA) Organic Standard for Processors sets out its guidelines for the killing and processing animals who have been reared under organic systems. In the introduction, the guiding principle for Organic Standard is...
Posted 10 Dec 2009
The government-appointed Working Group charged with setting rules for how ‘game birds’ will in future be produced for shooting has caused widespread dismay this week by publishing a Code of Practice that fails to outlaw...
Posted 26 Nov 2009