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Many Clouds: a tragedy that need not have happened

Many Clouds, the 2015 Grand National winner, collapsed and died after winning a gruelling race at Cheltenham on Saturday (28 January 2017). It was a tragedy that need not have happened.

Posted 29 Jan 2017

Leighton Aspell riding Many Clouds By Dan Heap - IMG_9918, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32037276

Nightmarish scenes uncovered in UK slaughterhouse

Tenth to be filmed breaking the law Secret footage shot inside a South Yorkshire slaughterhouse has reignited a row over animal cruelty, in the latest of a series of undercover films showing widespread lawbreaking in UK...

Posted 18 Jan 2017

France passes bill ordering CCTV in slaughterhouses

On 12 January France passed a bill ordering slaughterhouses to install CCTV cameras, following an outcry over animal cruelty. Members of the French National Assembly were informed that lawbreaking is a widespread problem in the...

Posted 13 Jan 2017