One of the first decisions by the new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has been to withdraw a new Code of Practice for ‘game bird’ production (made under the Animal Welfare Act 2006). The...
Posted 07 Jun 2010
Animal Aid has released a shocking new factory farming film featuring grim scenes shot secretly in randomly-selected farms across the UK during the last three years.
Posted 26 May 2010
Animal Aid has today released footage taken secretly inside a Norfolk slaughterhouse that kills pigs and sheep.
Posted 06 May 2010
Animal Aid’s new publication, The Trouble with Shooting, is a short and informative guide for anyone who wants to know more about the mass-production of pheasants, partridges and ducks, destined to become feathered targets for...
Posted 30 Apr 2010
Animal Aid has released footage taken covertly at the Soil Association-approved Sturminster Newton abattoir in Dorset. This is the sixth UK slaughterhouse to be filmed by the campaign group, and the footage shows serious welfare...
Posted 12 Apr 2010
These notes were sent to the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) along with a 50-minute extract from our undercover filming at Sturminster Newton abattoir.
Posted 12 Apr 2010
Unique research by national campaign group Animal Aid demonstrates that a horse dies on a British racecourse approximately every other day.
Posted 26 Mar 2010
More than 90 per cent of scientists who backed a drug at the centre of a safety scare had financial links to the pharmaceutical industry, and 87 per cent had financial links with the drug's...
Posted 19 Mar 2010
After more than six years of campaigning and undercover exposés by Animal Aid of battery cages used for 'game birds', the government has today issued a new industry Code of Practice that effectively outlaws the...
Posted 15 Mar 2010
The RSPCA has formally endorsed Animal Aid’s call for CCTV to be installed in all UK slaughterhouses and has said that it will make cameras mandatory in all Freedom Food approved abattoirs.
Posted 25 Feb 2010