Animal Aid’s Christmas Fayre 2014
A feast of ethical festive treats awaits you at the Animal Aid Christmas Fayre. To enrich your mind, soul... and stomach.
Posted 25 Sep 2014
News
Bullet in the head for a long-haul horse
These are photographs the racing industry does not want the public to see. They show Wigmore Hall moments after breaking his leg at Doncaster Racecourse, and then being shot in the head by a vet....
Posted 19 Sep 2014
United Utilities calls off the cull!
Campaign by Bird Lover and Animal Aid Successful When bird lover David Kennedy discovered that Canada geese were being shot at Lingley Mere – a lake owned by Warrington-based United Utilities – he felt he had...
Posted 19 Sep 2014
Environmental impacts of animal farming spark continued controversy
New research published by Cambridge and Aberdeen universities has provided further evidence of the massive and growing environmental impacts of farming animals for food, sparking more debate on the issue.
Posted 02 Sep 2014
The ‘SOCPA Seven’
September 22 marks the start of a criminal trial in London’s Southwark Crown Court that, supporters of the seven defendants claim, amounts to a concerted attack on non-violent grass roots anti-vivisection campaigning. It is argued...
Posted 21 Aug 2014
The inglorious twelfth
August 12th – the so-called Glorious Twelfth – marked the start of the four-month grouse shooting season. A new Animal Aid report, Calling the Shots 2014, is aimed at alerting the public to the truth about...
Posted 12 Aug 2014
Two farmers prosecuted for neglecting animals
A farmer in Yorkshire has been jailed for 16 weeks after 350 dead and dying animals were discovered at his farm, whilst another farmer in Wales has had his animals seized after they were found...
Posted 07 Aug 2014
Insensitivity of primate researchers exposed by government committee
The Animals in Science Committee (ASC), which is responsible for advising the government on vivisection, has rejected several elements of a deeply disturbing government-commissioned report that downplayed the suffering of primates used in neuroscience research.
Posted 04 Aug 2014
Giving up meat is better for the environment than giving up your car, says new study
New research from the USA has found that cutting meat consumption would do more to reduce carbon emissions than getting rid of your car. The scientists behind the report singled out beef farming as being...
Posted 23 Jul 2014
Culling badgers ‘won’t control Bovine TB’
Computer modelling by the universities of Warwick and Cambridge has accurately reproduced the spread of bovine TB and the number of cases. Furthermore, the study, which has been published in Nature, has concluded that culling...
Posted 03 Jul 2014