‘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

Posted on the 20th September 2007
Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered for human consumption.
It is the first time that such scenes have been filmed in Britain and made public.
Covertly recorded last month at Potter’s abattoir in Taunton, the Animal Aid footage shows the killing of a succession of apparently fit and healthy horses. One conspicuous exception was a seriously injured chestnut mare who was brought to the killing factory on the evening of August 14. After a long delay, she was finally shot while lying in a yard.
Have you heard? A breathtaking arts initiative, ‘The Herds’ will be arriving in London this Friday.
Posted 27 Jun 2025
As the greyhound racing industry releases its annual data on the number of dogs’ deaths, a raft of well-known names - alongside their canine friends - has called upon the Government to end greyhound racing....
Posted 26 Jun 2025