Sharon Howe: animal testing is both cruel and unnecessary
From The Independent (06/03/06):
Posted 06 Mar 2006
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Oxford protest in favour of labs: ignorance on parade
Saturday's Oxford demonstration in favour of animal research was yet another opportunity for vivisection proponents to shut off all intelligent assessment of their cruel and scientifically bogus activities. This was accomplished by invoking the spectre...
Posted 01 Mar 2006
Animal campaign group slams shooting lobby’s call for increased game bird production in the face of bird flu
Around 50 per cent of the 35 million pheasants reared on Britain's shooting estates originate from intensive farms in France. With the arrival of Bird Flu in France, pro-shooting lobby group the British Association of...
Posted 21 Feb 2006
Shooters put cats, eagles, otters on list of rural pests
A recent edition of Shooting Times magazine carried a three-page article on Britain's 30 Most Wanted Pests. These are animals who interfere with the production of 'gamebirds' and fish for so-called sport shooting and for...
Posted 01 Feb 2006
Defra squirrel ‘control’ to plan a ‘cynical and vicious scapegoating exercise’
Today's announcement by the government of a new 'plan to control grey squirrels' is condemned by Animal Aid as a cynical and vicious exercise in scapegoating.
Posted 23 Jan 2006
Government accused of failing to regulate animal research
The Home office is this week accused by Animal Aid of operating a 'permissive regime that allows an unacceptable degree of self-regulation by animal researchers who are sanctioned, literally, to maim, poison and kill'.
Posted 11 Jan 2006
Countryside Alliance fails ASA truth test
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has today ruled (December 7) that the Countryside Alliance (CA) made untruthful and unsubstantiated claims in its attempt to promote the alleged benefits of game shooting.
Posted 07 Dec 2005
As cage-ban looks imminent… shooting industry at war with itself over gamebird battery cages
Animal Aid welcomes the decision by the leading shooting lobby group to go head-to-head with the main game production body over the question of battery cages for breeding gamebirds.
Posted 23 Nov 2005
Investigation exposes gamebirds’ battery cage nightmare
As the 2005 shooting season rapidly approaches, a new report by national campaign group, Animal Aid, uncovers a new and sickening development within the gamebird rearing industry: battery cages.
Posted 06 Sep 2005
Victory for Newchurch guinea pigs
Animal Aid welcomes news that Darley Oaks guinea pig farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, intends to close at the end of the year.
Posted 01 Aug 2005