Somerset pig farm is revisited five years on
Animal Aid investigators have gone back to a pig farm they first visited five years ago to see whether conditions have improved.
Posted 11 Jul 2013
News
Challenge animal experiments
Newspapers routinely carry article about supposed ‘breakthroughs’ in the medical world, hopes for new treatments and studies revealing ‘groundbreaking’ results. These reports often include glib mentions of ‘research on animals…’ and, most frequently, ‘experiments on...
Posted 27 Jun 2013
‘Best practice’ for badger cull announced
Defra and Natural England – the coalition government’s delivery agency for the badger cull – have issued an impossible dream sheet for the guidance of marksmen licensed to kill badgers in the ill-conceived bovine TB...
Posted 20 Jun 2013
Animal Aid protests at Uttoxeter Racecourse: 28 horses killed in just six years
National campaign group, Animal Aid, held a demonstration at the gates of Uttoxeter Racecourse on 19 June to highlight the shockingly high number of horses killed at the Staffordshire venue. At the heart of the...
Posted 13 Jun 2013
Britain exports TB-infected meat
The carcasses of British cows who were infected with bovine TB (bTB) are being exported to France, Holland and Belgium, an article in The Sunday Times has revealed. These countries have been officially declared free...
Posted 08 Jun 2013
Government set to kill badgers
Today, the government defeated an Opposition Day Debate motion (‘This House believes the badger cull should not go ahead’) by 299 to 250, in what was described as a ‘heavily whipped’ vote. Had MPs been...
Posted 05 Jun 2013
Ecotricity supports team badger
Today, the Stroud-based green energy supplier, Ecotricity, has pledged its support to Team Badger and spoken out strongly against the cull. Dale Vince, Ecotricity founder, said: ‘I fully support Team Badger in their efforts in...
Posted 04 Jun 2013
Animal Aid to protest against multiple horse deaths at Wetherby Racecourse
Following the deaths of three horses in a single day of racing at Wetherby Racecourse last week, Animal Aid’s Horseracing Consultant, Dene Stansall, will travel to the West Yorkshire course to remind those attending the...
Posted 29 May 2013
Natural England authorises mass culls to protect shoot interests
Tens of thousands of endangered gulls have been shot, trapped and poisoned on one of England's largest shooting estates with government approval, according to an investigation by The Guardian newspaper.
Posted 24 May 2013
Time to install CCTV cameras in animal research labs
In the light of yet more evidence of incompetence, cruelty and regulatory breakdown suffered by animals in UK laboratories, Animal Aid is stepping up its campaign to have CCTV installed in establishments that conduct animal...
Posted 17 May 2013