Animal Aid statement on Royal Ascot: heat wave created unacceptable risk to horse’s lives
Royal Ascot ends the life of at least one horse, with multiple whip offences also seen at this year’s event.
Posted 20 Jun 2022

Posted on the 28th August 2019
The Labour Party has today (August 28) published its Animal Welfare Manifesto, which contains a wide range of progressive measures.
This includes a ‘long-term objective to phase out animal testing entirely’. The manifesto covers many different areas in which animals are exploited and harmed, and contains detailed commitments for each. These include pledges to:
Says Animal Aid Director, Isobel Hutchinson:
Find out how you can take action to help animals‘We are greatly encouraged by these ambitious new proposals, which would make a huge difference for the millions of vulnerable animals who are exploited, harmed and killed at the hands of people.
‘We are especially heartened by the clear commitment to ultimately end animal testing, which is a vital measure that is so desperately needed and long overdue. As well as causing unthinkable suffering to animals imprisoned in laboratories, animal experimentation is simply poor science, since the results cannot be reliably translated to people.
‘We very much hope that other political parties will be inspired by these proposals, and will follow suit in committing to these important measures.’
Royal Ascot ends the life of at least one horse, with multiple whip offences also seen at this year’s event.
Posted 20 Jun 2022
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Posted 19 Jun 2022
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