Pfizer pays out £50m after deaths of children
The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has paid out £50m in a lawsuit relating to a drug trial it conducted on children in Nigeria in 1996.
Posted 06 Apr 2009
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Threefold increase in horse deaths on all-weather racecourses
The number of race horse fatalities on Britain’s All-Weather (AW) racecourses has tripled during the past 12 months, despite their artificial surfaces having a reputation for being safe and durable.
Posted 02 Apr 2009
MEPs vote to allow severe and prolonged suffering of animals and say it’s in the interests of animal welfare
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
Badger cull announced
The coalition government has today announced that it will sanction a pilot badger cull starting in the spring of 2012, which may be implemented more widely from 2013. The unpopular announcement was issued to coincide...
Posted 25 Mar 2009
Unhappy Mother’s Day
Animal Aid brings a little cheer to the ‘unhappiest mothers in Britain’
Posted 19 Mar 2009
As Cheltenham kills another horse, Animal Aid fears for Denman
The annual Cheltenham Festival, which has killed 14 horses during the last three years, claimed another victim yesterday (Thursday 12 March). The inexperienced yet heavily backed Clarified fell early in the 4pm Festival Plate race,...
Posted 13 Mar 2009
New Europe poll demands end to lab suffering and secrecy
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
Animal Aid’s response to a briefing document by the British Horseracing Authority regarding EDM 285
Racing’s regulatory body, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), has written to all signatories of the Early Day Motion (EDM) – tabled by Mike Hancock MP.
Posted 23 Feb 2009
It’s official! UK pigs do not enjoy very high welfare standards
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that pig industry adverts, which maintained that British pigs enjoy ‘very high welfare standards’, were misleading.
Posted 11 Feb 2009