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Council rejects application for vivisection breeding unit

Councillors have rejected a planning application for a new vivisection breeding unit in East Yorkshire. The unit would have bred dogs and ferrets for use in animal experiments and been an expansion of B&K Universal,...

Posted 13 Nov 2013

Veal production in the UK

Dairy cows are made pregnant so that they produce commercial quantities of milk. Female calves may join the herd as replacements for their worn-out mothers who are ‘culled’. The males – and some of the...

Posted 28 Oct 2013

Culling badgers spreads TB

Scientists at the University of Exeter have studied badgers to see how their social interaction may spread bovine TB. They found that TB-infected badgers tended to be shunned within their social groups and were more...

Posted 22 Oct 2013

Horsemeat scandal: The Guardian’s revelations

The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence has conducted a thorough and eye-opening investigation into the horsemeat scandal, which has uncovered a ‘labyrinth of murky meat brokerage that stretches across borders and takes in drug and horse smuggling,...

Posted 22 Oct 2013

The badgers are moving the goalposts

Today, Defra Minister Owen Paterson declared the trial badger cull in Somerset successful, but only because the official estimate of badger numbers was sharply reduced in the last few days.

Posted 09 Oct 2013

Be kind – don’t kill

As cold weather approaches, wild animals may search for warmth and sustenance within our homes.

Posted 03 Oct 2013