Animal Aid has campaigned hard against the shooting of ‘game birds’ for sport for 15 years, gathering evidence through undercover filming and publishing several reports that make evident the wholesale cruelty and environmental damage involved.
Posted 11 Apr 2013
This advertisement appeared in the Guardian and Daily Express newspapers on Saturday, October the 27th. The adverts are part of Animal Aid’s campaign, aimed at frustrating the gun lobby’s attempts to recruit new young shooters....
Posted 27 Oct 2012
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released a report that advises those who regularly eat ‘game’ killed with lead shot to reduce consumption because the meat is potentially toxic. The FSA’s Director of Food Safety...
Posted 12 Oct 2012
After more than two years of meetings and examination of scientific reports, the Food Standards Agency (FSA), taking advice from the Lead Ammunition Group (LAG), was expected on 3 October 2012 to publish guidance to...
Posted 05 Oct 2012
An overwhelming majority of people want gun magazines that show animals being killed for sport consigned to newsagents’ top shelves alongside pornography, according to a new public opinion poll. An even higher proportion want the...
Posted 11 Sep 2012
A campaign to ban the sale of gun magazines to children has been launched by Britain’s largest animal rights group, Animal Aid.
Posted 28 Aug 2012
In its latest and most welcome U-turn, this government has today scrapped its plans to allow buzzards’ nests to be destroyed and adult birds taken into captivity – both of which are currently illegal.
Posted 30 May 2012
One of the very first decisions Defra’s Animal Welfare Minister James Paice made when coming to office was to overturn a ban on the use of battery-style cages for breeding pheasants. Now, it seems, he...
Posted 24 May 2012
The Green Party has reiterated its fundamental opposition to bloodsports, following the publication in a leading regional newspaper of pro-shooting comments by a rogue councillor.
Posted 08 Mar 2012
The Scottish Government has passed a law of Criminal Vicarious Liability to ensure that those who direct or turn a blind eye towards the persecution of birds of prey can be held to account by...
Posted 12 Dec 2011