The Independent – an act that has failed to protect animals
From The Independent (17/04/06): Twenty years on from the 1986 Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, our Director, Andrew Tyler, comments in The Independent:
Posted 17 Apr 2006
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Sharon Howe: animal testing is both cruel and unnecessary
From The Independent (06/03/06):
Posted 06 Mar 2006
Oxford protest in favour of labs: ignorance on parade
Saturday's Oxford demonstration in favour of animal research was yet another opportunity for vivisection proponents to shut off all intelligent assessment of their cruel and scientifically bogus activities. This was accomplished by invoking the spectre...
Posted 01 Mar 2006
Government accused of failing to regulate animal research
The Home office is this week accused by Animal Aid of operating a 'permissive regime that allows an unacceptable degree of self-regulation by animal researchers who are sanctioned, literally, to maim, poison and kill'.
Posted 11 Jan 2006
Victory for Newchurch guinea pigs
Animal Aid welcomes news that Darley Oaks guinea pig farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, intends to close at the end of the year.
Posted 01 Aug 2005
Government accepts our amendments to Bill aimed at curbing vivisection protests
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill - which contains new measures aimed at protecting animal research establishments - received Royal Assent on Thursday 7th April 2005.
Posted 01 Apr 2005
Yes, in your backyard – can the government now ride roughshod over its own planning inspectors
This article by Norna Hughes appeared in The Times, August 18, 2004. Norna Hughes, Solicitor, acted on behalf of Animal Aid and the National Anti-Vivisection Society in our High Court challenge.
Posted 01 Aug 2004
‘It works because we say so…’
On March 31, Portsmouth South MP, Mike Hancock, asked an apparently innocuous parliamentary question of the Home Secretary. 'What recent research', Hancock wanted to know, had his Department 'commissioned and evaluated on the efficacy of...
Posted 01 Jun 2004
3R plans a ‘sop’
Animal Aid statement in response to the government's plans for a new 3Rs centre
Posted 21 May 2004
Science based toxicology – Animal Aid backs important new report promoting non-animal safety
In October 2003, the European Commission presented its latest proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for the testing of chemicals. This is part of the EU's plan to test thousands of substances that have...
Posted 01 May 2004