Cambridge anti-vivisection protests make powerful impact
Our two days of action against animal experiments at Cambridge University have had a powerful impact, with excellent public engagement and strong local media coverage.
Posted 07 Mar 2014
News
Eating animal protein is linked to early death and cancer
New research published in the journal Cell Metabolism shows that eating high levels of protein from animal sources – such as meat, milk and eggs – increases the risk of death from cancer by four...
Posted 05 Mar 2014
Why Cheltenham Racecourse is the most lethal in Britain: a major new Animal Aid analysis
Crowded races, long distances to run, the use in demanding events of novice horses, stiff fences and challenging racing ground … these are key factors that lead to more horses being killed at Cheltenham Racecourse...
Posted 03 Mar 2014
It’s official: badger culls were ‘ineffective and failed humaneness test’
An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective. And that more than 5 per cent of the shot badgers took...
Posted 28 Feb 2014
Home Office document reveals disturbing scale of research programme on pregnant animals
Animal Aid has obtained an official document revealing that the pregnant sheep experiment recently featured on our Victims of Charity website – and which was financially supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) – was...
Posted 25 Feb 2014
Massacre at the Windsor Estate: 7,000 wild animals killed in one year
More than 7,000 wild animals were killed on the Windsor Estate during 2013, according to a Freedom of Information request by campaign group, Animal Aid. While the figures for January were not recorded due to...
Posted 24 Feb 2014
‘Macabre and repugnant’ charity-funded sheep experiment condemned
Pregnant sheep surgically mutilated Unborn lambs brain-damaged Cambridge University experiment part-funded by British Heart Foundation
Posted 13 Feb 2014
Marius the giraffe
Following the killing of Marius the giraffe in a Danish zoo, Animal Aid’s Director, Andrew Tyler, wrote an opinion piece for The Mirror describing the killing as ‘business as usual for the modern zoo’ and...
Posted 11 Feb 2014
ASA’s ‘perverse’ ruling on anti-vivisection ad
Animal Aid has pledged to campaign more robustly than ever against the large-scale suffering involved in the breeding and use, in biomedical experiments, of genetically modified mice. The undertaking comes in response to a decision...
Posted 11 Feb 2014
Government exposes its lack of commitment to reducing animal research
Nearly four years ago, the government pledged to deliver a plan for reducing the number of animals used in experiments. Specifically, it said it would ‘end the testing of household products on animals and work...
Posted 07 Feb 2014