The foreword for Defra’s ‘Action Plan for Animal Welfare’, written by George Eustice, sounds very promising. He states that ‘The way we treat animals reflects our values and the kind of people we are’. This...
Posted 04 Jun 2021
Animal Aid used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the facts about horse slaughter in the UK.
Posted 02 Jun 2021
There are plans to set up a rabbit 'processing' facility complete with 'intake and skinning area' and permanent worker's dwelling at the T&S Rabbits Atlow/Hognaston site where we recently uncovered appalling conditions with rabbits cooped...
Posted 20 May 2021
Animal Aid has campaigned against the use of the whip, in horse racing, for more than 15 years. As part of our campaign, we collate and release data on the number of whip offences committed...
Posted 17 May 2021
Plans for a rabbit farm in Amersham, Buckinghamshire have been refused by Buckinghamshire Council following a sustained national campaign, hundreds of objections were submitted online to the official plans, including an extensive objection by Animal...
Posted 14 May 2021
It is expected that, during tomorrow's Queen’s speech, the Government will announce an animal welfare strategy. It has been reported in various places, most recently in the press this weekend, that the strategy will, among...
Posted 10 May 2021
Unbelievably, thousands of pheasants and partridges, used by the shooting industry for breeding purposes, are still being imprisoned in battery-style cages.
Posted 07 May 2021
Billboards promoting Animal Aid's Summer Vegan Pledge have started to spring up in towns and cities across the UK.
Posted 05 May 2021
Animal Aid’s latest undercover investigation into the conditions at game farms across the UK has revealed even more suffering and breaches of welfare legislation.
Posted 26 Apr 2021
A snare is a thin, wire noose. They are ‘set’ by people, with the aim that they will catch certain animals – foxes and rabbits – by the leg or the neck. The animals are...
Posted 20 Apr 2021
