News

Inside Out: Investigating the pheasant shooting industry

An East Midlands television programme was screened on 7 November about the cruelty of game bird shooting. Inside Out is a half hour regional current affairs programme which presents matters of public interest.

Posted 07 Nov 2007

Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk

A major new scientific report has produced ‘convincing’ evidence that eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of alerting consumers to the risks, the government is helping to fund propaganda offensives...

Posted 01 Nov 2007

Wigan Ruddy Ducks next on hit list

Despite opposition from Animal Aid, local bird groups and the local Community Action Party, Wigan council’s Environmental Services Director Martin Kimber has given the go ahead to allow government killing gangs to slaughter around 140...

Posted 12 Oct 2007

Horse abattoir press preview

Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered...

Posted 20 Sep 2007

Animal Aid background notes on horse slaughter

The Fate of Horses: Horses may end their days at a UK abattoir for a number of reasons – sickness, old age, they prove too costly, or (for race horses) they are deemed inadequate to...

Posted 18 Sep 2007

Appeal Court victory for Animal Aid campaigners

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