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CRUK rebuttal

Tamoxifen (Paragraphs in italics are extracted from CRUK’s letter) ‘Tamoxifen is one of the most successful anti-cancer drugs in current use, and it is estimated to have saved the lives of over 400,000 women worldwide…’...

Posted 14 Feb 2012

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Friday’s BHA whip meeting: the not so innocent jockey victims

Despite having forced racing’s regulator to twice dilute the new whipping rules introduced on 10 October 2011, jockeys’ representatives meet tomorrow (Friday, 20 January) with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in what appears to be...

Posted 19 Jan 2012

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Chimera monkeys: ‘reckless scientific adventurism’

Today’s national newspapers carried (often uncritical) reports of the birth of two macaque monkeys, whose genetic material originates from six ‘parents’. Known as chimeras, for each monkey, diverse parent cells were brought together to create...

Posted 06 Jan 2012

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List of sanctuaries

This is a list of sanctuaries with large and/or farmed animals but there are many, many more sanctuaries out there doing great work.

Posted 19 Dec 2011

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A trojan horse arrives at Cheltenham

To mark 100 years of Cheltenham's National Hunt Festival, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum organised an exhibition, entitled Horse Parade, featuring 10 sculptures of horses by national artists.

Posted 17 Nov 2011

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Grand National review: BHA’s feeble package of ‘reforms’

Following public outrage at the death of two horses in the 2011 Grand National, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) undertook a review of the event that was ‘designed to continue enhancing the safety and welfare...

Posted 02 Nov 2011