According to Dr Michael Bracken, as much as 87.5 per cent of all biomedical research may be wasteful and inefficient1. The Susan Dwight Bliss professor of epidemiology at Yale University School of Public Health is...
Posted 24 Aug 2016
Animal Aid is saddened by reports that this year’s badger cull will include five new cull zones (South Devon, North Devon, North Cornwall, West Dorset, and South Herefordshire). The badger cull is being pushed by...
Posted 23 Aug 2016
A report published today (19 August), by a team of independent experts headed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor Ian Rotherham, finds that the cost of independent monitoring of CCTV inside England's slaughterhouses is likely to...
Posted 19 Aug 2016
A fire across two sheds at a farm in Wiltshire has killed more than 750 pigs, including 700 piglets. Eight fire engines were called to the scene, but fire fighters were unable to rescue the...
Posted 28 Jul 2016
With just two weeks to go until the start of the grouse shooting season – the so-called Glorious Twelfth – a short, hard-hitting film, revealing the destructive and cruel nature of grouse shooting, has been...
Posted 27 Jul 2016
The shocking extent of animal use for scientific research is revealed today in Home Office statistics, relating to all vivisection completed in 2015. A total of 4.14 million procedures were conducted on animals, including dogs,...
Posted 20 Jul 2016
Tate Modern has recently installed a piece by Hélio Oiticica, entitled Tropicália, which features two macaws in a small cage.
Posted 18 Jul 2016
One of the most lethal in the country On Thursday, 21 July, campaign group Animal Aid’s Battle Bus will be at Doncaster Racecourse to tell punters about the shocking number of race horses who have...
Posted 13 Jul 2016
One of the most lethal racecourses in the country On Wednesday, 20 July, campaign group Animal Aid’s Battle Bus will be at Catterick Bridge racecourse to tell punters about the shocking number of race horses...
Posted 13 Jul 2016
Internal Royal Veterinary College documents, obtained by Animal Aid under Freedom of Information legislation, reveal a series of blunders by college researchers performing animal experiments, that have resulted in dogs, sheep, guinea pigs and other...
Posted 29 Jun 2016
