Statement on Bowood Slaughterhouse case
A district judge ruled on 9 September that the Bowood Slaughterhouse case has run out of time. The court was told that there was a delay of almost a year between the Food Standards Agency...
Posted 10 Sep 2016
News
7,500 objections to Upton pig farm
More than 7,500 people have now spoken out against plans for an intensive pig farm in Upton, Lincolnshire, which could rear nearly 2,000 pigs at a time. This excellent response has already demonstrated the strength...
Posted 01 Sep 2016
Chelmsford residents urged to eat cruelty-free
Members of the public were invited to watch a powerful video showing pigs on the final stage of their journey to a local slaughterhouse, which was filmed during a recent vigil with Essex Pig Save....
Posted 30 Aug 2016
Yet more evidence of illegal animal abuse inside UK slaughterhouses
Reports released to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have revealed that more than 4,000 severe breaches of animal welfare regulations took place in UK slaughterhouses over the past two years. The shocking incidents detailed in...
Posted 30 Aug 2016
Petition launched calling on Natural Resources Wales to ban shooting on its land
Leading animal protection group Animal Aid has launched an online petition calling on the Welsh Government to ban shooting on Welsh public land.
Posted 26 Aug 2016
Waste in biomedical research can harm people’s health
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
Badgers to be culled in five new areas of England
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
Independent report finds monitoring CCTV in slaughterhouses is ‘cost effective and feasible’
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
750 pigs die in farm fire
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
Grouse shooting: Unnatural. Uncontrolled. Unkind.
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
