New investigation reveals the reality of ‘enriched’ cages.
On 1st January 2012 battery cages were banned throughout the European Union.
Posted 16 Jan 2014
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Animal Aid launches innovative new anti-vivisection initiative
Animal Aid has launched a groundbreaking new online initiative, which marks the beginning of a critical phase in its campaign to stop medical charities funding vivisection.
Posted 13 Jan 2014
EU statistics show urgent need for openness in regulation of vivisection
The latest EU statistics show that the UK is the third largest user of animals in experiments amongst the 27 member states. The UK is a particularly ruthless user of mice, accounting for 16.5 per...
Posted 13 Dec 2013
Have a compassionate Christmas
There are lots of ways to enjoy a compassionate Christmas and help animals at the same time … read on.
Posted 12 Dec 2013
System governing vivisection dealt devastating blow
The official regulatory system governing vivisection in Britain was dealt a devastating blow today with the publication of a report by an establishment scientist. Professor Steve Brown of the Medical Research Council was called upon...
Posted 10 Dec 2013
The badger cull is abandoned!
Just days after Brian May’s legal challenge to halt the cull in Gloucestershire was denied by the High Court, comes news that the government has abandoned the cull. Marksmen have failed to kill enough animals...
Posted 29 Nov 2013
Progress on CCTV in labs
In May last year, Animal Aid – together with the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) – submitted to the head of the Home Office (HO) unit that authorises and regulates animal experiments a dossier making the...
Posted 28 Nov 2013
MRSA outreak in UK turkeys
A strain of the MRSA bacterium – which is resistant to a range of antibiotics – has been identified in turkeys being prepared for Christmas at a farm in East Anglia.
Posted 27 Nov 2013
High Court action filed today by Brian May’s Save Me Organisation
The controversial badger cull extension presently underway in the South West of England faces a new legal challenge with a High Court action filed today (26th Nov) by Brian May’s Save Me organisation.
Posted 26 Nov 2013
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