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Racing debate – head to head with the lobbyist

Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler went head to head with leading horse racing lobbyist, Brough Scott, in The Guardian newspaper, Saturday April 3, 2004. Read their exchange below.

Posted 01 Apr 2004

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A hiding to nothing

Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning

Posted 31 Mar 2004

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Horse experimenters win Mad Science awards

Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards (AAMSAs) - handed out each August for pointless and grotesque scientific research - this year go to research teams from 14 establishments who conducted invasive experiments on horses.

Posted 14 Aug 2003

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Ruddy protests come to Scotland

Two days of Scottish protests will be staged on the 13th and the 14th August against the government's decision to eradicate the entire UK population of ruddy ducks - many of them located in Scotland.

Posted 13 Aug 2003

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Animals: War’s hidden victims

A new report by Animal Aid, entitled Animals: the hidden victims of war, exposes the truth about the myriad ways in which animals are killed, mutilated, abandoned and exploited as a consequence of human warfare.

Posted 24 Jun 2003

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Shame of top-table conservation groups

The four leading conservation groups involved in the mass destruction of rats on Lundy island have been put to shame by a revealing new Animal Aid undercover video relating to the conduct of the 'cull'.

Posted 16 Apr 2003

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Call for Grand National ban after another tragic death

National campaign group Animal Aid has called for the annual Grand National horse race to be banned following the horrifying death of Goguenard in Saturday's gruelling race that also saw favourite Iris Bleu carried off...

Posted 05 Apr 2003