Government’s dismal failure to reduce animal experiments
A document published yesterday (March 26) by the government has confirmed its total lack of commitment to reducing the suffering of animals in laboratories.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
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Another blow for the pro-vivisection lobby
An article that appeared in the Guardian Weekly has strongly criticised the use of mice as ‘models’ of human disease. Interviewing scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School, it describes how...
Posted 20 Mar 2015
Government announces ‘weak and toothless’ version of ban on animal testing for household products
The coalition government has today (March 12) announced a pitifully weakened version of its promised ban on animal testing for household products.
Posted 12 Mar 2015
A second horse killed at the Cheltenham Festival
Rolling Star became the second horse to die at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival when he fell heavily at the last obstacle of what was, at times, a furiously fast hurdle race on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted 11 Mar 2015
New report reveals eight horses died in just 16 days racing at Cheltenham
Just one week before the much-hyped Cheltenham Festival, a new Animal Aid report reveals that equine fatalities at the Gloucestershire course occurred so regularly during 2014 that there was a 50 per cent chance of...
Posted 03 Mar 2015
Revealed: jockeys break the whip rules almost 600 times in one year
Jockeys riding on British racecourses broke the rules relating to use of the whip no fewer than 586 times in 2014. Twenty-two riders offended five or more times, and one jockey, Jack Duern, broke the...
Posted 23 Feb 2015
AP McCoy – yet more of his mounts die
Two horses who were being ridden by Britain’s leading jockey, AP McCoy, have died in the past two days. This brings to 29 the total number of McCoy’s mounts who have perished since March 2007...
Posted 18 Feb 2015
Medical charities briefed on why animal research can’t be trusted
Animal Aid has this week published a detailed new Briefing – written especially for members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) – making the scientific case against the use of animals in biomedical...
Posted 16 Feb 2015
First horse victim at new racecourse
On Thursday February 12, five-year-old gelding, Poyle Toby, became the first equine victim at the newly revamped Chelmsford City racecourse – formerly known as Great Leighs.
Posted 13 Feb 2015
Animal Aid takes anti-vivisection message to celebrity ball
Yesterday, campaigners from Animal Aid staged a dynamic presence at the British Heart Foundation’s celebrity ball, and called on the organisation to stop funding experiments on animals. Activists distributed leaflets inside the event itself, which...
Posted 11 Feb 2015