Be kind – don’t kill
As cold weather approaches, wild animals may search for warmth and sustenance within our homes.
Posted 03 Oct 2013
News
Call for processed red meat sales to be restricted like tobacco, due to cancer link
National campaign group Animal Aid has launched a campaign calling for processed red meat products – such as bacon, sausages and ham – to be restricted in the same way as tobacco products, because of...
Posted 19 Sep 2013
No safe limit campaign tour
To launch our new No Safe Limit campaign – which calls for sales restrictions on processed red meat due to its link to bowel cancer – Animal Aid is taking to the road to visit...
Posted 18 Sep 2013
The badger cull: government cannot define ‘humaneness’
The government’s Chief Veterinary Officer has finally admitted that he cannot define ‘humaneness’, despite the fact that the badger cull is being carried out specifically to test for it. Nigel Gibbens wrote: 'There are, however,...
Posted 16 Sep 2013
Keep gun magazines away from children!
National Anti-Shooting Week targets WHSmith Animal Aid’s ‘Battle Bus’ – a converted ambulance emblazoned with stark protest imagery and messages – will soon be travelling the country as part of a national campaign to have violent...
Posted 12 Sep 2013
National Farmers Union: shooting itself in the foot over Bovine TB
The government and the NFU are creating more vegetarians and vegans with their deeply unpopular badger cull. At Animal Aid, we have received many messages from people who say that the cull has opened their...
Posted 09 Sep 2013
National demonstration against Wickham Laboratories
On Saturday 7th September, Animal Aid’s scientific consultant Dr Adrian Stallwood travelled to Gosport in Hampshire, to a national demonstration against Wickham Laboratories. Here is what he said: ‘It should go without saying that what goes...
Posted 09 Sep 2013
Stars sign up to save England’s badgers
007, M, an Avenger, Prince Vultan, Judge John Deed, a Prime Minister and a lion-hearted lady unite to Battle for Badgers
Posted 15 Aug 2013
There’s nothing ‘glorious’ about the twelfth
The grouse shooting season, which starts today (the so-called Glorious Twelfth), runs until 10 December. Here are a few of the many reasons why this bird-killing festival is nothing to celebrate.
Posted 12 Aug 2013
Badger ‘battle bus’ comes to Gloucestershire
On Friday 19th and Saturday 20th April, Animal Aid’s Battle Bus will be visiting Gloucestershire to urge residents to vote for badger-friendly candidates in the forthcoming local elections. The ‘bus’ – actually a converted ambulance...
Posted 04 Aug 2013