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Ten fishy facts for Seafood week
As Seafood Week begins, Animal Aid is urging the public to leave fish and other sea creatures off their plates, and try out a cruelty-free diet instead.
Posted 07 Oct 2016
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Upton pig farm allowed to go ahead
Sadly, despite almost 8,000 people submitting objections through our website and vigorous local opposition, a new factory farm in Lincolnshire has been allowed to go ahead.
Posted 21 Sep 2016
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Race regulator says horse who snapped leg in starting stalls was ‘unruly’
Anyone who saw Animal Aid's footage of Mukaynis getting caught up in the starting stalls and snapping his leg while waiting for the start of a race at Doncaster on Saturday could have felt nothing...
Posted 13 Sep 2016
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Horrific scenes in starting stall that leaves horse dead
In September 2014 Animal Aid caught on camera the shooting of race horse Wigmore Hall after he broke a leg while racing in the Doncaster St Leger meeting. At this year’s meeting, Animal Aid again...
Posted 12 Sep 2016
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Horse Racing Awareness Week
Animal Aid’s Horse Racing Awareness Week takes place in the seven days leading up to the country’s most famous race, the Grand National in April. We stage a series of high-profile media events to highlight...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
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This Unsporting Life: race horse deaths in British racing
An analysis of literally thousands of pages of racing results has revealed that no fewer than 375 horses are raced to death every year.
Posted 04 Sep 2016
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Running for their lives: The 1999/2000 season
During the 1999/2000 National Hunt horse racing season, 247 horses were raced to death - that's one dead horse for every 31 who took part in National Hunt rules events.
Posted 04 Sep 2016
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Running for their lives – The Grand National
In the second section of this special Animal Aid report – Running for their Lives – we take a look at the Grand National itself. No British course arouses such passion or controversy as Aintree...
Posted 04 Sep 2016