Notes for the Meat Hygiene Service to accompany Sturminster Newton abattoir film
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
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One Thoroughbred Death Every Other Day on a British Racecourse
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
GlaxoSmithKline accused of skewing debate on drug safety
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 years of Animal Aid campaigning, Defra ban game bird battery cages
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
RSPCA backs Animal Aid’s slaughter campaign
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
A reminder of why the 2004 Hunting Act matters
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
The James Gray trial: account from inside the court
Amersham horses trial - Tuesday 2 Feb - Bicester Magistrates Court, Oxfordshire
Posted 17 Feb 2010
Pharmaceutical industry criticised
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
Victory for the monk parakeets!
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
Badger cull announced
Welsh Assembly Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has today (25th March) announced a cull of badgers in West Wales. She said that there will be an ‘intensive action area’ covering 200 square kilometres in Pembrokeshire,...
Posted 25 Jan 2010