Less than three years after parliament banned hunting with hounds, the red carpet was rolled out at this week’s Labour Party conference for the leading figures of a bloodsport that involves the mass production and...
Posted 25 Sep 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...
Posted 20 Sep 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...
Posted 20 Sep 2007
The British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) http://www.beta-uk.org/ conducted the National Equine Survey, the results of which were published in 2006.
Posted 18 Sep 2007
The Fate of Horses: Horses may end their days at a UK abattoir for a number of reasons – sickness, old age, they prove too costly, or (for race horses) they are deemed inadequate to...
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Footage taken inside British dairy farms by Animal Aid exposes a shocking new development in the industry: the arrival of the almost permanently confined ‘battery cow’.
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Two Animal Aid supporters have won a landmark Appeal Court victory over police attempts to criminalise them for running a high street information stall, from where they sought public support for a ban on primate...
Posted 09 Sep 2007
Animal Aid filmed covertly at Potter’s abattoir, Taunton, during August 2007.
Posted 18 Aug 2007
The High Court in London has ruled that the government has been underplaying the severity of suffering experienced by animals in laboratory experiments.
Posted 27 Jul 2007
A former senior officer with Britain’s leading shooting lobby group has revealed that up to 40 per cent of all birds shot at for sport are wounded rather than killed outright, and are never recovered.
Posted 25 Jun 2007