DEFRA in retreat over farmed animal welfare
The farming and environment ministry Defra has made a significant reversal on the future of the Codes governing farmed animal welfare.
Posted 07 Apr 2016
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The Royal Veterinary College’s animal experiments: ask them to stop!
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has bred a colony of dogs with a genetic flaw, leading them to suffer a canine version of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). They will be killed when just 18 months...
Posted 06 Apr 2016
Royal Veterinary College ignores offer to debate animal experiments
Animal Aid’s challenge to a senior Royal Veterinary College (RVC) researcher to debate publicly the RVC’s involvement in thousands of animal experiments each year has gone unanswered.
Posted 06 Apr 2016
Take a stand for race horses
For those horrified by the deaths of seven horses at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival, please make a pledge to help with Animal Aid's Horse Racing Awareness Week.
Posted 22 Mar 2016
Death toll at Cheltenham Festival hits ten year high with seven dead
With the racing establishment desperately trying to dampen any news and debate about multiple deaths at this year’s Cheltenham Festival, another two horses have perished on the final day of the Gloucestershire meeting.
Posted 18 Mar 2016
Good news! Plans for million-bird chicken farm withdrawn following Animal Aid campaign
Plans for a giant chicken farm near York that could have reared more than a million birds per year have been withdrawn following a vigorous Animal Aid campaign.
Posted 16 Mar 2016
Bowood slaughterhouse staff charged with cruelty following Animal Aid investigation
The two former owners of Bowood Yorkshire Lamb slaughterhouse in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, are understood to have been charged with animal cruelty offences, together with three slaughtermen who worked at the abattoir.
Posted 16 Mar 2016
‘Nightmarish scenes’ filmed at farms run by company planning Yorkshire factory farm
'Nightmarish scenes’ of filth, squalor and animal suffering have been uncovered at a series of farms run by York Wold Pig Pro Ltd, the company applying to build a controversial new pig farm in the...
Posted 10 Mar 2016
Cheltenham Festival slammed in satirical new postcards from Animal Rights group
An exhausted horse, brought to the ground by the demands of running in the big race, continues to be whipped by his dementedly ambitious jockey. The rider cries ‘Come on! They’re getting away!’ It is...
Posted 03 Mar 2016
11 horses killed at 11 different racecourses in 11 days
Eleven horses were killed on British racecourses in as many days during February – a death toll that serves as a depressing curtain-raiser for the Cheltenham Festival (March 15-18), which itself is a graveyard for...
Posted 01 Mar 2016