Animal Aid

Animal Aid is the UK's largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977.

We campaign peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promote a cruelty-free lifestyle. We investigate and expose animal cruelty, and our undercover investigations and other evidence are often used by the media, bringing these issues to public attention.

Animal Aid works hard to protect animals across the UK, and we get results!

We:

• Played a central role in stopping Cambridge University from building a primate testing facility
• Stopped Focus DIY, Wyevale and Henley-in-Arden market from selling pets
• Landed the shooting industry with a £20 million unpaid tax bill
• Stopped horses being sold for meat at Ascot horse sales
• Stopped Oxford City Council introducing horse-drawn carriages

• Stopped Britain’s largest bird fair from taking place
• Blocked proposals for four reptile zoos
• Stopped local councils from culling birds
• Conducted undercover investigations into the shooting industry’s use of battery cages for breeding birds, forcing the leading pro-shoot lobby group to condemn such “horrific” conditions
• As a result of our undercover investigations and campaigning work, DEFRA issued a ban on battery cages used to incarcerate breeding pheasants by the shooting industry
• Went head to head with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons over our right to criticise vivisection… and won

• Stopped Makro selling live lobsters in its 30 stores
• Persuaded Asda, Morrison’s, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Waitrose, Co-op and Tesco to stop advertising pets for sale on their noticeboards
• Stopped pig racing events at a country fair
• Forced John Lewis to disband its shooting club and end the rearing and shooting of pheasants on its estate
• Produced an anti-vivisection leaflet, A Crying Shame, which was the subject of a two hour GCSE English paper sat by more than 430,000 pupils
• Following the submission of a dossier of evidence by Animal Aid, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that shot pheasants cannot be described as organic.
• Together with other organisations, we convinced a majority of all MEPs to support a ban on primate experiments

What else do we do?

• Launch regular undercover investigations into factory farms, slaughterhouses, gamebird rearing operations, the horse racing industry and livestock markets

• Produce in-depth reports, factsheets and leaflets to support our campaigns
• Lobby politicians
• Send out thousands of free education packs
• Speak in around 300 schools each year
• Campaign online though viral films, podcasts and networking websites
• Stage Britain’s leading annual cruelty-free Christmas fair
• Offer a large range of cruelty-free mail order goods including toiletries, clothes, chocolates and books through our ethical online shop.