3R plans a ‘sop’
Animal Aid statement in response to the government's plans for a new 3Rs centre
Posted 21 May 2004
News
Statement on the failure of Professor William ‘Twink’ Allen to obtain a Home Office licence to conduct cloning experiments on horses
Professor William 'Twink' Allen, who conducts invasive experiments on horses at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's Equine Fertility Unit based at Cambridge University, claims that the Home Office has bowed to pressure from animal rights protesters...
Posted 06 May 2004
Science based toxicology – Animal Aid backs important new report promoting non-animal safety
In October 2003, the European Commission presented its latest proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for the testing of chemicals. This is part of the EU's plan to test thousands of substances that have...
Posted 01 May 2004
Call for Grand National ban after another year of ‘carnage’
Statement from Animal Aid on the 2004 Grand National
Posted 03 Apr 2004
Today in The Times – Animal Aid win BBC apology
The BBC governors have rebuked the makers of Radio 4's Today programme and ordered them to apologise to Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler for the way it edited a recorded interview with him that was...
Posted 01 Apr 2004
Racing debate – head to head with the lobbyist
Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler went head to head with leading horse racing lobbyist, Brough Scott, in The Guardian newspaper, Saturday April 3, 2004. Read their exchange below.
Posted 01 Apr 2004
A hiding to nothing
Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning
Posted 31 Mar 2004
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