MRSA outreak in UK turkeys
A strain of the MRSA bacterium – which is resistant to a range of antibiotics – has been identified in turkeys being prepared for Christmas at a farm in East Anglia.
Posted 27 Nov 2013
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High Court action filed today by Brian May’s Save Me Organisation
The controversial badger cull extension presently underway in the South West of England faces a new legal challenge with a High Court action filed today (26th Nov) by Brian May’s Save Me organisation.
Posted 26 Nov 2013
Council rejects application for vivisection breeding unit
Councillors have rejected a planning application for a new vivisection breeding unit in East Yorkshire. The unit would have bred dogs and ferrets for use in animal experiments and been an expansion of B&K Universal,...
Posted 13 Nov 2013
Wall Street Journal writes about campaign to protect Britain’s monk parakeets
An article in the Wall Street Journal details the campaign to protect the feral population of monk parakeets living in the UK.
Posted 13 Nov 2013
Animal Aid reveals McCoy’s record 25 horse deaths in just six years
As celebrity jockey AP McCoy approaches a landmark total of 4,000 wins in a career spanning more than 20 years, the unpalatable truth omitted from the growing hype is the shocking number of horses who...
Posted 01 Nov 2013
Public subsidies paid to millionaire grouse shooters
As millions of Britons continue to suffer economic hard times, Animal Aid demands an end to public subsidies for millionaire grouse shoot owners.
Posted 31 Oct 2013
Veal production in the UK
Dairy cows are made pregnant so that they produce commercial quantities of milk. Female calves may join the herd as replacements for their worn-out mothers who are ‘culled’. The males – and some of the...
Posted 28 Oct 2013
Culling badgers spreads TB
Scientists at the University of Exeter have studied badgers to see how their social interaction may spread bovine TB. They found that TB-infected badgers tended to be shunned within their social groups and were more...
Posted 22 Oct 2013
Horsemeat scandal: The Guardian’s revelations
The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence has conducted a thorough and eye-opening investigation into the horsemeat scandal, which has uncovered a ‘labyrinth of murky meat brokerage that stretches across borders and takes in drug and horse smuggling,...
Posted 22 Oct 2013
The badgers are moving the goalposts
Today, Defra Minister Owen Paterson declared the trial badger cull in Somerset successful, but only because the official estimate of badger numbers was sharply reduced in the last few days.
Posted 09 Oct 2013