Animal Aid has released footage taken covertly at the Soil Association-approved Sturminster Newton abattoir in Dorset. This is the sixth UK slaughterhouse to be filmed by the campaign group, and the footage shows serious welfare...
Posted 12 Apr 2010
These notes were sent to the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) along with a 50-minute extract from our undercover filming at Sturminster Newton abattoir.
Posted 12 Apr 2010
Unique research by national campaign group Animal Aid demonstrates that a horse dies on a British racecourse approximately every other day.
Posted 26 Mar 2010
More than 90 per cent of scientists who backed a drug at the centre of a safety scare had financial links to the pharmaceutical industry, and 87 per cent had financial links with the drug's...
Posted 19 Mar 2010
After more than six years of campaigning and undercover exposés by Animal Aid of battery cages used for 'game birds', the government has today issued a new industry Code of Practice that effectively outlaws the...
Posted 15 Mar 2010
The RSPCA has formally endorsed Animal Aid’s call for CCTV to be installed in all UK slaughterhouses and has said that it will make cameras mandatory in all Freedom Food approved abattoirs.
Posted 25 Feb 2010
The Conservative Party has indicated that, should it win the General Election, it will make parliamentary time for a free vote on repealing the 2004 Hunting Act, which made hunting foxes and stags with hounds...
Posted 19 Feb 2010
Amersham horses trial - Tuesday 2 Feb - Bicester Magistrates Court, Oxfordshire
Posted 17 Feb 2010
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) was unveiled in draft form this week by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, and...
Posted 12 Feb 2010
Last night (Nov 9th) at the Hertsmere Borough Council Executive meeting the issue of whether DEFRA should be permitted to cull monk parakeets on Council-owned land was finally decided in favour of the birds.
Posted 27 Jan 2010