How does the Countryside Alliance do it? Two days before the start of the four months grouse shooting season, it has released the results of a questionnaire poll that ‘clearly shows that grouse shooting is...
Posted 11 Aug 2009
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has reported that, on 24 July 2009, the European Commission announced the adoption of a non-animal alternative to the cruel Draize test. Every year, some 10,000 animals...
Posted 24 Jul 2009
The number of medical experiments involving animals has shown its largest rise since modern records began in 1986. The official government explanation for this massive increase in animal use, is an expansion in biomedical research...
Posted 23 Jul 2009
The use of animals in medical research is increasing at its fastest rate since 1986. We must find a credible humane alternative. By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner As published in The Guardian – Comment is Free...
Posted 23 Jul 2009
The March issue of leading equine magazine Your Horse featured a four-page article entitled ‘Fit, Healthy and Being Slaughtered’. Animal Aid provided much of the source material for the article, which featured images from our...
Posted 03 Jul 2009
One of the Queen’s gamekeepers, Robbie Elliott, is to be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, after two badgers were killed in snares at the Balmoral estate. The offence carries a maximum penalty...
Posted 27 May 2009
Killarney racecourse has been accused of ‘cold hearted complacency’ by Animal Aid, Europe’s largest animal rights organisation. The group’s attack comes after the death of six horses in one day at the racecourse was dismissed...
Posted 11 May 2009
The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has paid out £50m in a lawsuit relating to a drug trial it conducted on children in Nigeria in 1996.
Posted 06 Apr 2009
The number of race horse fatalities on Britain’s All-Weather (AW) racecourses has tripled during the past 12 months, despite their artificial surfaces having a reputation for being safe and durable.
Posted 02 Apr 2009
Yesterday (31st March) in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee (AGRI), MEPs backed a series of amendments that seriously weaken proposals from the European Commission to regulate animal testing across Europe. Some measures could set animal...
Posted 01 Apr 2009