Animal Aid launches Horse Race DeathWatch
National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
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Boost for campaign to stop ruddy duck slaughter
National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
BBC apologises for silencing horse racing industry critic
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Racing in crisis as four horses killed in one day’s racing at Wincanton
Racing is facing a crisis with seven horses known to have died on racecourses in just one week. The latest four victims all perished on Monday at Wincanton, Somerset.
Posted 20 Mar 2007
Chimpanzee research is flawed, says scientific study
The value to human medicine of laboratory research using chimpanzees is being evaluated in a series of major studies. The first paper finds that such experiments contribute ‘little, if at all, to tangible human clinical...
Posted 20 Mar 2007
Youth4Animals members tell Canada to stop killing seals
Youth4Animals members (Animal Aid's youth group) held a successful demonstration outside Canada House at Trafalgar Square on Saturday. Eight members, aged from 11 to 18, were joined by staff from Animal Aid's Education department and...
Posted 19 Mar 2007
Waitrose and Morrisons come top of vegetarian & vegan-friendly supermarket poll
In August 2006, Animal Aid launched a nationwide survey to find Britain's most vegetarian-and vegan-friendly supermarket chain, monitoring more than 600 supermarkets across the UK.
Posted 26 Feb 2007
‘Fake’ fur revealed to be dog fur
Big names in the fashion industry are inadvertently using dog fur as trim on their garments. Brands including Tommy Hilfiger and DKNY bought ‘fake’ fur, sourced from China but laboratory analysis found that 24 out...
Posted 26 Feb 2007
Leading neuroscientist speaks out against animal testing: statement by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford)
An eminent neuroscientist and practising neurosurgeon has stepped into the raging debate over animal experimentation to launch a blistering attack on Oxford University and other animal-using research institutions.
Posted 04 Jan 2007
Oxford vivisectionists are swimming against the tide – by Marius Maxwell
As a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist with two decades of research experience, I feel qualified to contribute to the debate on non-human primate vivisection. The arguments of the Weatherall Committee defy much current scientific evidence, and...
Posted 04 Jan 2007