New information obtained from the Food Standards Agency by Animal Aid (through a Freedom of Information request) reveals the truth behind the smokescreen of ‘glamour’ at Ascot this week. Statistics show that 317 horses from...
Posted 21 Jun 2025
Last week, I was lucky enough to join around 1,500 delegates attending the Microphysiological Systems World Summit in Brussels. ‘Microphysiological system’ (MPS) is a term which covers ‘organs on chips’, organoids and other systems which...
Posted 20 Jun 2025
Posted 18 Jun 2025
This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this fairy-tale veneer lies a disturbing reality –...
Posted 16 Jun 2025
Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate for the dogs – it is a day, like every other day in...
Posted 13 Jun 2025
An article in The Independent this week (Tuesday 10) shares world-first footage of egg-laying hens being suffocated to death in gas chambers. The footage, filmed at an RSPCA Assured slaughterhouse, proves once again that ‘higher...
Posted 12 Jun 2025
Animal protections have advanced encouragingly in recent decades, but one group of species has been almost entirely absent from the conversation: decapod crustaceans.
Posted 09 Jun 2025
Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. This Friday and Saturday (6th and 7th June) is the Epsom Derby Festival –...
Posted 05 Jun 2025
Fur Free Britain, a coalition of animal protection groups, handed in a petition today calling for a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK.
Posted 02 Jun 2025
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