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Fallen horse

Cheltenham 2010: One horse dead after just 75 minutes

Within just 75 minutes of the start of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival, the event claimed an equine victim when Casey Jones was destroyed behind quickly erected green screens.

More about the death of racehorse Casey Jones at Cheltenham 2010 Animal Aid is commemorating a decade of death at Cheltenham Festival on 18 March 2010
Pheasant cage

After years of Animal Aid campaigning … Defra ‘bans’ game bird battery cages

After more than six years of campaigning and undercover exposés by Animal Aid of battery cages used for 'game birds', the government has today issued a new industry Code of Practice that effectively outlaws the contraptions.

More about game bird battery cages
sheep brought into slaughterhouse in wheelbarrow

The Food Standards Agency Backs CCTV Campaign

Animal Aid’s campaign to tackle the worst aspects of cruelty and incompetence in British abattoirs has taken a major step forward with the declaration by the head of the government’s food regulatory body that he backs our call to have CCTV installed in every British abattoir. Our campaign already has the support of the RSPCA, the Soil Association and Compassion in World Farming.

Moreabout the problems in slaughterhouses and our call for CCTV

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