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A worm’s eye view

Animal Aid director Andrew Tyler comments on the 'animal league table'. Some arguments against animal cruelty are easier to make than others. Defending monkeys is less arduous than defending rats.

Posted 01 Mar 2002

Seriously deluded – about animal experiments

The following article, entitled 'UK patients group hits back at anti-vivisectionists', appeared on the BMJ website (www.bmj.com) on 23 February 2002. Read on for Animal Aid's response.

Posted 01 Feb 2002

Cloning animals – headline news

By Kathy Archibald, Animal Aid Scientific Researcher. It seems extraordinary that a little premature arthritis in one sheep should make headline news, as the unfortunate Dolly has done in the first week of 2002. One might...

Posted 01 Jan 2002

Young blood

Government attacked over child shooters

Posted 30 Nov 2001

Pheasant shooting – in the news

Shooting Times and Sporting Gun have already devoted numerous pages over several issues on our campaign and a debate has begun about the conduct of the industry in their letters and features pages News article...

Posted 01 Oct 2001

Global warning

Only the ignorant few now deny that the effects of global warming are already upon us. The earth's ice cover is melting at a faster rate than at any time since records began, sea levels...

Posted 01 Sep 2001

EU chemical testing – doctors and lawyers oppose plan

The organisation Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine (DLRM) oppose - on scientific grounds - an EU plan for a massive new programme of safety testing of chemicals using animals. What follows is the DLRM...

Posted 01 Jul 2001