A hiding to nothing
Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning
Posted 31 Mar 2004
News
Making mistakes – apology from the BBC
BBC Radio 4's Today programme broke the news in January that Cambridge University was abandoning its plans for a massive primate research centre. This followed years of campaigning against the project - at the centre...
Posted 01 Mar 2004
Broadcasting bias – letter of complaint to the BBC
The BBC's Today radio programme, in breaking the news that Cambridge University was abandoning plans for a massive primate centre, helped set the tone for the press and broadcast coverage that followed. The tone was...
Posted 01 Feb 2004
Back in the dock – BUAV launches Cambridge challenge
Following the joint Animal Aid/NAVS High Court challenge to John Prescott, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has launched its own important case in which the government and Cambridge University are again...
Posted 01 Jan 2004
Dolly debts – PPL Therapeutics count the cost
PPL Therapeutics, the company behind Dolly the Sheep and other cloning techniques, has put itself up for sale. Chief executive Geoff Cook and four other directors have resigned.
Posted 01 Dec 2003
Primate experiments – a doctor speaks out
The following powerful endorsement of the growing scientific opposition to experiments on primates appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 30th September 2003. It is written by the Telegraph's leading health writer, Dr James Le Fanu.
Posted 30 Sep 2003
Unnatural animal acts a turn off
A Coalition of leading animal welfare groups supported by millions people have attacked Granada and ITV over a new animal reality TV programme.
Posted 23 Sep 2003
Study humans not monkeys – letter in The Telegraph
Scientific opposition to experiments on primates is considerable and growing - as evidenced by a letter published in the Daily Telegraph on 23rd September 2003.
Posted 23 Sep 2003
Horse experimenters win Mad Science awards
Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards (AAMSAs) - handed out each August for pointless and grotesque scientific research - this year go to research teams from 14 establishments who conducted invasive experiments on horses.
Posted 14 Aug 2003
Ruddy protests come to Scotland
Two days of Scottish protests will be staged on the 13th and the 14th August against the government's decision to eradicate the entire UK population of ruddy ducks - many of them located in Scotland.
Posted 13 Aug 2003