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Posted 23 Aug 2011
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Public tells medical research charities: don’t use our money for animal experiments
Medical research charities that use public donations to fund animal experimentation have been dealt a bitter blow with the results of a new public opinion poll, which indicates that they are acting against the wishes...
Posted 23 Aug 2011
Changes to the Grand National course will still leave horses at a high risk of fatal injury
Nine horses have been killed racing in the Aintree Grand National during the last decade, with two of those victims coming during this year’s race in April.
Posted 15 Aug 2011
The inglorious twelfth: Defra challenged to follow Scottish lead in curbing raptor persecution
With the grouse-slaughtering festival known, incongruously, as the 'Glorious Twelfth' fast approaching, Animal Aid has written to Defra Minister Jim Paice calling upon him to follow the Scottish government's lead and make shooting estate owners...
Posted 04 Aug 2011
Jockeys breach whipping rules more than 450 times in just six months
Animal Aid’s analysis of whipping offences committed during the first six months of racing in 2011, reveals little improvement in the way that jockeys treat their horses, despite mounting criticism from the public, media, MPs...
Posted 03 Aug 2011
Notes to accompany film from Cheale Meats Ltd
Cheale Meats Ltd, Brentwood Essex Filmed by Animal Aid 28 & 29 March, and 27 & 28 April 2011
Posted 28 Jul 2011
Revealed: Cigarettes stubbed out on slaughter pigs’ faces
Cigarettes stubbed out on pigs’ faces; one animal punched in the head; another goaded in the face; regular blows and kicks; seriously injured pigs forced to drag themselves to slaughter… All these abuses in one...
Posted 28 Jul 2011
RSPCA members vote to ban the whip in racing
In a move that is likely to prove critical to the outcome of the racing industry’s current review of the future of the whip, the RSPCA membership has declared its opposition to jockeys whipping horses,...
Posted 29 Jun 2011
MPs unanimously back a ban on wild animals in circuses
Following the debate in Parliament last night (June 24), MPs have defied the government and voted unanimously in support of a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. This sends an unmistakable message...
Posted 24 Jun 2011
Three horses dead in a day
Sedgefield racecourse reinforced its reputation as Britain's deadliest racecourse - along with Cheltenham* - when three horses perished there on Monday 13 June.
Posted 14 Jun 2011