News & Press

15-12-2005T00:00:00Z

Welcome to all the latest news and press from Animal Aid.

Save the Windermere Geese

There are reports that the Lake ...

Edinburgh's zoological prison

01-02-2012T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that both pandas at Edinburgh zoo have been sick with colic – no doubt as painful and distressing a condition in pandas as it is in children. The male, Yang Guang, is reported to have been sick for two weeks. His symptoms ...

Government says 'no' to massive dog vivisection breeding factory

27-01-2012T00:00:00Z

Plans for a massive expansion of an East Yorkshire facility that breeds dogs for animal research have been rejected by the government. The local authority had earlier turned down the proposal by laboratory suppliers B&K Universal for its site at Gr...

Another victory for the Monk Parakeets

27-01-2012T00:00:00Z

Campaigners on the Isle of Dogs have persuaded Tower Hamlets Council to stop the cull of wild monk parakeets. The Council has now formally requested that Defra stop its cull, a step that the government agency has described as 'disappointing'.

Cheale Meats boss says he was sickened by the cruelty

26-01-2012T00:00:00Z

An Essex newspaper has been shown around Cheale Meats slaughterhouse so that the company could ‘prove’ it had cleaned up its act after the shocking animal abuse filmed there last year by Animal Aid.

The report quotes Cheale Meats ...

Friday's BHA whip meeting: The not so innocent jockey victims

19-01-2012T00:00:00Z

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 an...

'Drug industry is now biggest defrauder of US government'

16-01-2012T00:00:00Z

Animal Aid’s major report, Making A Killing, describes how drug company greed harms both animals (through laboratory research) and people. This week the industry has again come under f...

New EDM for wild animals in circuses

13-01-2012T00:00:00Z

In June last year, MPs overwhelmingly supported a motion to ban the use of wild animals in circuses. Despite this, the government has failed to act, and instead Defra has been looking at a system of licensing – which would not stop the suffering ...

Meet Your Meat

12-01-2012T00:00:00Z

Local campaigners have been holding demonstrations outside Cheale Meats – the Essex slaughterhouse exposed for horrific cruelty to pigs, which included burning them with cigarettes and kicking, punching and dragging them through the slaughterhous...

Whipping for Profit: how horseracing rewards the cheat

09-01-2012T00:00:00Z

Though the British Horseracing Authority’s limits on whip use are clearer than ever before, when a jockey strikes a horse excessively or illegally, the result of the race always remains unchanged. It’s a bit like a sprinter keeping Olympic ...