Bovine TB and intensively-reared cattle
It has been reported in the media today that the incidents of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle increases where those cattle are intensively reared.
Posted 11 Nov 2015
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Innovative app lets public choose cruelty-free medical charities
Animal Aid has launched an innovative phone app that allows people to check whether medical research charities fund experiments on animals. The Cruelty-Free Giving app – which is free to download – features a searchable...
Posted 06 Nov 2015
The true history of the grey squirrel in Britain
The grey squirrel is one of the most persecuted wild animals in Britain today. It has been blamed for vast numbers of devastating crimes – from environmental destruction to the near extinction of the red...
Posted 01 Nov 2015
WHO announces processed meat is carcinogenic
The World Health Organisation has announced that processed meat is ‘carcinogenic to humans’, ranking it amongst some of the most cancer-causing substances in the world, adding further weight to Animal Aid’s call for it to...
Posted 23 Oct 2015
New Home Office animal research statistics – huge numbers of animals bred and then trashed
The massive overbreeding of genetically modified (GM) animals is revealed today in Home Office statistics, relating to all vivisection completed in 2014. A total of 1.94 million animals, mostly mice, incinerated – many of them...
Posted 22 Oct 2015
More than 100 MPs now demand mandatory CCTV in slaughterhouses
The day when slaughterhouses will be compelled to fit independently-monitored CCTV cameras has moved a step closer this week, as Jim Cunningham became the hundredth MP to have signed a parliamentary motion in support of...
Posted 15 Oct 2015
End of this year’s badger slaughter
Reliable reports suggest that this year’s round of badger culls are to end today (October 14). The culls, which were taking place in West Somerset, West Gloucestershire and Dorset, were intended to kill up to...
Posted 14 Oct 2015
British Egg Week: Public is in the dark about suffering of hens
Vast number of animals still suffering in cruel cages
Posted 05 Oct 2015
October 1: Start of the pheasant shooting season
Every year, more than 40 million pheasants are intensively reared to be released for shooting … and the four-month killing season starts today. Animal Aid is as determined as ever to build support for a...
Posted 01 Oct 2015
Leading Alzheimer’s charity supports ‘hopelessly outdated’ GM mouse experiments
Mice genetically altered to suffer crude version of Alzheimer’s Animals repeatedly subjected to stressful water maze testing Mice given eight weeks of abdominal injections
Posted 17 Sep 2015