Why The Grand National Needs to Be Banned
From the 3rd-5th April, The Grand National meeting will take place: a brutal event which has claimed the lives of 65 horses since 2000.
Posted 31 Mar 2025
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Tea, Cake, Liberate for all the animal mums on Mother’s Day!
Discover the stories of the mothers trapped inside different animal industries, and how you can help stand up for them this Mother’s Day
Posted 27 Mar 2025
World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming – why fish matter and what we can do to help
Join us this week on March 29th for the Ninth ‘World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming’. Together, we’ll delve into the critical issues surrounding the catching and farming of fish, and...
Posted 25 Mar 2025
Snares – does your MP support the ban?
In February, Ruth Jones MP tabled a new Early Day Motion (EDM), calling on the government to implement its promised ban on snares as soon as possible.
Posted 20 Mar 2025
Corbetts Cross killed at Cheltenham Gold Cup – this cruelty must end now
Corbetts Cross (IRE) was killed at the Gold Cup chase at Cheltenham this afternoon - taking the death toll of the Cheltenham Festival up to 78 horses lives lost since 2000.
Posted 14 Mar 2025
Springwell Bay killed at The Cheltenham Festival – taking the death toll of this brutal event up to 77 horses since 2000
Animal Aid is heartbroken and disgusted that yet another horse has been killed at The Cheltenham Festival. Springwell Bay was killed this afternoon after falling at a fence - and became the 77th victim of...
Posted 13 Mar 2025
Notorious killer of race horses, the Cheltenham Festival, starts today!
Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.  
Posted 11 Mar 2025
NOW IN CINEMAS: Our new farming campaign
Today, our anti-dairy advert heads into cinemas. The advert, which has been airing on Channel 4 and Sky TV for the last three weeks, highlights the systemic suffering of dairy cows and calves and urges...
Posted 07 Mar 2025
598 horses from the racing industry were sent to slaughter in England in 2024
The Cheltenham Festival takes place between 11th-14th March - and will be surrounded by the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty marketing rhetoric, peddled...
Posted 06 Mar 2025
557 abuses of whip regulations in 2024 – it’s time to ban the whip in horse racing!
It is shocking that in 2024, there were  557 breaches of whip regulations. Currently, the whip may be used six times in a flat race and seven times in a jump race. These limits are arbitrary...
Posted 05 Mar 2025
