Today, a government report reveals how more than 3.4 million animals were used for the first time in experiments, in Great Britain, in 2018. The animals, including monkeys, horses, cats, mice, dogs and fish, are...
Posted 18 Jul 2019
Almost 50,000 animals have been killed at secret military laboratory
Posted 08 Jul 2019
Animal Aid has discovered further terrible ways in which animals are made to suffer at Porton Down, the secret government laboratory.
Posted 02 Jul 2019
Animal Aid is today highlighting the terrible ways in which thousands of animals are suffering and dying in warfare experiments. The main location for these macabre tests is the government laboratory at Porton Down, which...
Posted 12 Apr 2019
Today we are launching a new campaign to raise awareness of, and ultimately stop, all warfare experiments involving animals. All animal experiments are cruel and unreliable, but warfare experiments are particularly heinous. This is because...
Posted 21 Feb 2019
Yesterday, 3 December, the Home Office department that regulates animal experiments published its annual report, and it makes for grim reading. The report covers 2017, and outlines 40 cases of ‘non-compliance’ with the law on...
Posted 04 Dec 2018
Today (8th November) the Home Office released figures showing that, in addition to the 3.72 million animals who were used in scientific procedures in Great Britain in 2017, another 1.81 million animals were bred for...
Posted 08 Nov 2018
Animal Aid has discovered that Parkinson’s UK will provide funding of more than £780,000 for work which will include testing a drug named NLX-112 on primates.
Posted 28 Sep 2018
Home Office statistics, released today, reveal the horrifying scale of experiments on living animals in Great Britain. In 2017, 3,721,744 animals were used for the first time, including monkeys, dogs, cats, horses, mice, rats and...
Posted 19 Jul 2018
Animal Aid has uncovered shocking experiments involving monkeys being brain-damaged with a toxic chemical. Later, they were force-fed different drugs and observed for ten hours, while blood samples were regularly taken from their thighs.
Posted 24 Apr 2018