Yesterday (31st March) in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (AGRI), MEPs backed a series of amendments that seriously weaken proposals from the European Commission to regulate animal testing across Europe. Some measures could set animal...
Posted 01 Apr 2009
The coalition government has today announced that it will sanction a pilot badger cull starting in the spring of 2012, which may be implemented more widely from 2013. The unpopular announcement was issued to coincide...
Posted 25 Mar 2009
Animal Aid brings a little cheer to the ‘unhappiest mothers in Britain’
Posted 19 Mar 2009
The annual Cheltenham Festival, which has killed 14 horses during the last three years, claimed another victim yesterday (Thursday 12 March). The inexperienced yet heavily backed Clarified fell early in the 4pm Festival Plate race,...
Posted 13 Mar 2009
A major new public opinion poll conducted in six European Union countries, demonstrates massive support for a ban on primate research and the end of the secrecy that governs the twelve million experiments conducted on...
Posted 12 Mar 2009
Racing’s regulatory body, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), has written to all signatories of the Early Day Motion (EDM) – tabled by Mike Hancock MP.
Posted 23 Feb 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that pig industry adverts, which maintained that British pigs enjoy ‘very high welfare standards’, were misleading.
Posted 11 Feb 2009