Animal Aid in parliament to discuss ending animal tests
Yesterday, Animal Aid hosted a roundtable in Westminster, to meet with MPs and other invited guests to discuss the ending the LD50 and other animal tests.
Posted 02 Jul 2025

Posted on the 20th July 2006
For five months every year, the 25-strong department store group invites its staff to indulge in the perverse 'pleasure' of blasting pheasants from the sky. Around 200 birds are bagged daily at the firm's 3000-acre Hampshire estate.
It’s part of an industry that annually in Britain:
Roughly 36 million pheasants are shot and retrieved annually. Birds who are not killed cleanly have their necks broken or are clubbed over the head. Another 12 million suffer crippling blast injuries and are never recovered. Shooters dress up their sick enterprise as ‘conservation’. But the truth is found in the industry’s name for their quarry – game birds.
It’s all a game to those who factory farm the pheasants – cutting off the ends of their beaks or fixing them with clips (as do John Lewis), in an attempt to limit the bird-on-bird aggression caused by the crowded conditions. It’s all a game to those who slaughter British wildlife to protect their ‘sport’. John Lewis admit to killing foxes, rabbits, stoats and weasels. But it’s no game for the animal victims, for whom the ‘sport’ means suffering and death.
Opposition to John Lewis’ involvement in bloodsports was launched in 1996 by the National Anti Hunt Campaign. Now Animal Aid adds its voice.
Yesterday, Animal Aid hosted a roundtable in Westminster, to meet with MPs and other invited guests to discuss the ending the LD50 and other animal tests.
Posted 02 Jul 2025
Have you heard? A breathtaking arts initiative, ‘The Herds’ will be arriving in London this Friday.
Posted 27 Jun 2025