British Egg Week: Public is in the dark about suffering of hens
Vast number of animals still suffering in cruel cages
Posted 05 Oct 2015
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October 1: Start of the pheasant shooting season
Every year, more than 40 million pheasants are intensively reared to be released for shooting … and the four-month killing season starts today. Animal Aid is as determined as ever to build support for a...
Posted 01 Oct 2015
Leading Alzheimer’s charity supports ‘hopelessly outdated’ GM mouse experiments
Mice genetically altered to suffer crude version of Alzheimer’s Animals repeatedly subjected to stressful water maze testing Mice given eight weeks of abdominal injections
Posted 17 Sep 2015
Bloodsports’ tiny following
We are often fed rhetoric from the shooting and hunting fraternities claiming that there is an ever growing interest in their pastimes. However, a new survey conducted by Natural England (NE) shatters this carefully cultivated...
Posted 04 Sep 2015
Bovine TB: a new round of badger slaughter begins
The government has today (28 August) announced the scale of a new round of badger killing as the central plank of its anti-bovine TB campaign. In West Somerset a maximum of 524 badgers can be...
Posted 28 Aug 2015
Animal Aid’s response to Defra-commissioned report on game bird cages
In 2009, Defra commissioned a major study, costing more than £420,000, into whether commonly-used metal battery cages can meet the welfare needs of ‘gamebirds’ used for breeding. Astonishingly, the report has only just been published,...
Posted 24 Aug 2015
Bowood Yorkshire Lamb Slaughterhouse, exposed for cruelty, goes into administration
A Yorkshire slaughterhouse, whose brutal treatment of sheep was revealed through undercover filming by Animal Aid, is reported to have gone into administration.
Posted 12 Aug 2015
Dairy crisis shows industry is unsustainable
Dairy farmers have been grabbing headlines in recent days and weeks with a series of high-profile protests over falling milk prices that have included buying up all the milk on supermarket shelves and even taking...
Posted 12 Aug 2015
United against grouse shooting
From the 12 August, a minority of wealthy, idle ‘sporting’ types will be ferried to grouse butts on some of the country’s most beautiful upland areas. There, they will laze until beaters scare hundreds of...
Posted 31 Jul 2015
United against grouse shooting (full version)
On 12 August, a minority of wealthy, idle ‘sportsmen’ will be ferried to grouse butts on some of the country’s most beautiful upland areas. There, they will laze until beaters scare hundreds of grouse into...
Posted 31 Jul 2015