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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

RCVS fail to silence criticism of vet vivisector

An animal researcher, who was a recipient of an Animal Aid Mad Science Award (AAMSA), has failed in his attempt to get Animal Aid’s scientific consultant struck off the register of veterinary surgeons.

Posted 25 Jun 2007