Why The Grand National Needs to Be Banned
From the 3rd-5th April, The Grand National meeting will take place: a brutal event which has claimed the lives of 65 horses since 2000.
Posted 31 Mar 2025

Posted on the 18th July 2019
Today, a government report reveals how more than 3.4 million animals were used for the first time in experiments, in Great Britain, in 2018. The animals, including monkeys, horses, cats, mice, dogs and fish, are the victims of an industry built on flawed science and immeasurable suffering.
The report gives no meaningful detail of what happens to the animals. It is full of charts, graphs and statistics which belie the fear, terror and suffering that the animals will have undergone. Despite the lack of meaningful detail, we know that:Â
‘Year after year we are told the top-line figure of animals used in experiments, which hides a truly astounding amount of pain, suffering, distress, terror and death. We are talking about more than 3.4 million lives, many full of fear and pain, cut brutally short all because of a lazy reliance on outdated science.‘Animal Aid is calling on all of those involved in animal research to see the futility of this work and turn their hands to human-relevant, humane science instead. This would benefit not only human patients and their families, but millions of animals, too.’Â
From the 3rd-5th April, The Grand National meeting will take place: a brutal event which has claimed the lives of 65 horses since 2000.
Posted 31 Mar 2025
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