Roadmap – to phase out ‘animal testing’ – is launched
We are pleased to announce we have published our ‘Roadmap to phase out animal testing’.
Posted 03 Dec 2024
Posted on the 6th April 2023
The notorious Grand National Festival, which has killed so many innocent horses, will take place 13-15 April 2023.
The main Grand National race takes place on the final day of the Festival and is an incredibly perilous horse race. It’s run over a stamina-sapping four-and-a quarter miles and has 30 hazardous fences that the 40 horses who take part are forced to jump.
59 horses have been killed at the Grand National Festival since the year 2000, with four fatalities last year.
Animal Aid’s new campaign, which calls for a ban on Jump Racing, was launched in March in order to highlight the dangers to horses’ lives and welfare.
Our hard-hitting new film, created for social media, has been viewed more than 200,000 times since the launch of the campaign!
Jump racing events – such as the Cheltenham Festival in March and the Grand National Festival in April – are heavily promoted through the media, which helps to normalise routine cruelty to horses (such as the use of the whip) whilst failing to present comprehensive information relating to horse deaths and injuries.
We are also calling on compassionate people to take action by writing to ITV and BBC Radio 4, asking the broadcasters to stop promoting animal cruelty.
Click here to write to ITV and BBC Radio 4For more information:
We are pleased to announce we have published our ‘Roadmap to phase out animal testing’.
Posted 03 Dec 2024
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Posted 01 Dec 2024