An exhausted horse, brought to the ground by the demands of running in the big race, continues to be whipped by his dementedly ambitious jockey. The rider cries ‘Come on! They’re getting away!’ It is...
Posted 03 Mar 2016
Eleven horses were killed on British racecourses in as many days during February – a death toll that serves as a depressing curtain-raiser for the Cheltenham Festival (March 15-18), which itself is a graveyard for...
Posted 01 Mar 2016
The British Social Attitudes Survey has revealed that millions of people across the UK have reduced their meat consumption over the past year. As many as 3-in-ten have already cut down on meat, whilst a...
Posted 19 Feb 2016
Fifteen years ago (as of 19 February 2016) what would turn out to be a traumatic epidemic of foot and mouth disease began with the discovery of disease symptoms in 27 pigs sent for slaughter...
Posted 19 Feb 2016
Two articles and an editorial, all published on the 4 January 2016, in the science journal PLoS Biology, shine yet more light on the shady world of animal research, where living animals, capable of suffering...
Posted 29 Jan 2016
National campaign group Animal Aid is demanding a complete shutdown of Catterick Bridge racecourse after a spate of deaths this January in which four horses have been killed in just three days of racing.
Posted 28 Jan 2016
The popular notion of a dog being man’s best friend is clearly not recognised at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), where researchers have been subjecting beagle-crosses to painful experiments that aim to alleviate human, rather...
Posted 20 Jan 2016
An application to build a factory farm in Lincolnshire that would have reared nearly 2,000 pigs at a time will not be going ahead.
Posted 13 Jan 2016
New Year, a new you? Why not make your new year’s resolution a compassionate one! We have compiled a list of ten steps you can take to ensure you make 2016 a more compassionate year...
Posted 28 Dec 2015
Christmas is upon us, but there are still some things you can do to make your holiday season an animal-friendly one.
Posted 22 Dec 2015