Hospital food has a notorious reputation and has been the target of numerous tabloid newspaper and celebrity chef backed campaigns to improve standards. But all of these initiatives have failed to tackle two significant issues...
Posted 29 Apr 2015
Today, Animal Aid campaigners are marching to parliament – alongside colleagues from Lush, the League Against Cruel Sports and Save Me – to highlight the importance of considering animal protection measures when voting on May...
Posted 23 Apr 2015
Animal Aid has today launched a petition calling on the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) to overturn a new requirement that all its members must publicly declare support for vivisection on their websites. We...
Posted 23 Apr 2015
The 2015 Aintree Grand National meeting has claimed its second victim. Balder Succes was destroyed on Sunday morning, two days after a serious fall in Friday’s Melling Chase. The 7-year-old gelding injured his right shoulder...
Posted 12 Apr 2015
A supporter of national campaign group, Animal Aid, has just scaled the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square to wrap the famous ‘Gift Horse’, by Hans Hacke, in a green banner that reads: Horse Racing: You bet,...
Posted 11 Apr 2015
Furless mice injected with human cancer cells Rats chemically poisoned for six months Mice genetically modified to develop cancer
Posted 31 Mar 2015
Animal Aid has long called for a ban on the use of the whip in racing. Newly published research gives further weight to our argument and brings us closer to our goal.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
A document published yesterday (March 26) by the government has confirmed its total lack of commitment to reducing the suffering of animals in laboratories.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
An article that appeared in the Guardian Weekly has strongly criticised the use of mice as ‘models’ of human disease. Interviewing scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School, it describes how...
Posted 20 Mar 2015
The coalition government has today (March 12) announced a pitifully weakened version of its promised ban on animal testing for household products.
Posted 12 Mar 2015