Animal Aid in parliament to discuss ending animal tests
Yesterday, Animal Aid hosted a roundtable in Westminster, to meet with MPs and other invited guests to discuss the ending the LD50 and other animal tests.
Posted 02 Jul 2025
The badger cull: government cannot define ‘humaneness’
Posted on the 16th September 2013
The government’s Chief Veterinary Officer has finally admitted that he cannot define ‘humaneness’, despite the fact that the badger cull is being carried out specifically to test for it. Nigel Gibbens wrote: 'There are, however, no definitive criteria for determining humaneness in this context.'
Last week, the Western Morning News reported that just ‘a handful’ of badgers have been shot in Somerset, after two weeks of culling. To meet the required target, 1500 animals would need to have been killed at this stage. One well-placed source told the paper: ‘Only three or four badgers are being shot every day. It is just a case now of who gets the blame for the whole thing failing.’
Read the Western Morning News article
Somerset County Councillor, Mike Rigby, examines the arguments for the cull
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‘The Herds’ will be arriving in London this Friday!
Have you heard? A breathtaking arts initiative, ‘The Herds’ will be arriving in London this Friday.
Posted 27 Jun 2025
