The latest EU statistics show that the UK is the third largest user of animals in experiments amongst the 27 member states. The UK is a particularly ruthless user of mice, accounting for 16.5 per...
Posted 13 Dec 2013
There are lots of ways to enjoy a compassionate Christmas and help animals at the same time … read on.
Posted 12 Dec 2013
The official regulatory system governing vivisection in Britain was dealt a devastating blow today with the publication of a report by an establishment scientist. Professor Steve Brown of the Medical Research Council was called upon...
Posted 10 Dec 2013
Just days after Brian May’s legal challenge to halt the cull in Gloucestershire was denied by the High Court, comes news that the government has abandoned the cull. Marksmen have failed to kill enough animals...
Posted 29 Nov 2013
In May last year, Animal Aid – together with the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) – submitted to the head of the Home Office (HO) unit that authorises and regulates animal experiments a dossier making the...
Posted 28 Nov 2013
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
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
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
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
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