Animal Aid’s undercover footage from the 2008 game bird shooting season
More information about pheasant and partridge shooting
Posted 23 Dec 2008
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The Game Drain: How millions are spent on producing a food that is worth a fraction of its production cost
As the ‘gamebird’ industry steps up its efforts to promote the ‘sport shooting’ of birds as a wholesome and natural means of food production, a damning new report reveals the massive squandering of resources and...
Posted 15 Dec 2008
Pig meat: a healthy option?
Newspapers are full of warnings to consumers to avoid Irish pork products due to possible contamination with dioxins, chronic exposure to which can cause cancer in humans
Posted 09 Dec 2008
Watchdog bites the Lady
Ultra-posh purveyors of country fare, Daylesford Organic – run by Lady Carole Bamford, the wife of eye-wateringly wealthy JCB boss, Anthony Bamford – has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The watchdog branded...
Posted 28 Nov 2008
Bloodlust: Images that reveal the shooting industry’s dark secrets
As the ‘gamebird’ shooting lobby tries desperately to sell its ‘sport’ as a branch of the food industry, fresh images from this year’s shooting season expose the cruelty and wastefulness of this bloodsport.
Posted 21 Nov 2008
Government welfare body attacks ‘gamebird’ battery cages
The government’s official advisory body on farmed animal welfare has today launched a devastating attack on the systems used to mass-produce pheasants and partridges for ‘sport’ shooting. The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), in its...
Posted 13 Nov 2008
Shooting gets another pat on the back from its favourite ‘scientific research’ body
A new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) concludes that only 34 per cent of pheasant nests in the wild are successful. (A successful nest is considered to be one where at...
Posted 13 Nov 2008
Controversial Oxford animal lab opens in secrecy
This week, political campaigner and Animal Aid patron Tony Benn joined a peaceful demonstration outside the newly opened Oxford University animal research laboratory.
Posted 11 Nov 2008
EC plans for drug ‘advertising’ shelved
A controversial European Commision proposal to allow drug companies to communicate directly with patients, which was due to be presented this week, has been postponed indefinitely.
Posted 31 Oct 2008
‘Wonder’ drug withdrawn
Just four years ago, Acomplia was hailed in the national press as a wonder slimming pill. Now it has been withdrawn by the authorities because of a high risk of serious psychiatric disorders leading, in...
Posted 24 Oct 2008