‘Wonder’ drug withdrawn
Just four years ago, Acomplia was hailed in the national press as a wonder slimming pill. Now it has been withdrawn by the authorities because of a high risk of serious psychiatric disorders leading, in...
Posted 24 Oct 2008
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Anti-Shooting Week tour – a brilliant response
Animal Aid's first ever National Anti-Shooting Week (22-28 September 2008) was tremendously successful and well-received – largely down to the enthusiasm and commitment of Animal Aid supporters across the country. With our mascot, Phileas the...
Posted 30 Sep 2008
Shooting industry in the dock
A 19-year-old gamekeeper who caught badgers in an illegal trap and then clubbed them to death has been spared jail. Kyle Burden, who also illegally shot buzzards, was sentenced on September 19 by Telford magistrates...
Posted 22 Sep 2008
Pro-bloodsports government policy exposed in National Anti-Shooting Week
Animal Aid is staging its first National Anti-Shooting Week (22-28 September) to highlight the extreme cruelty involved in the breeding and shooting of ‘gamebirds’. Our new mascot – Phileas the Pheasant – will be visiting...
Posted 10 Sep 2008
MAKING A KILLING: Major new report exposes how drug industry greed harms people and animals
National campaign group Animal Aid today (September 3) calls on government to crack down on drug industry practices that put profits before all else.
Posted 03 Sep 2008
Researchers condemn animal tests as unreliable
Scientists have spoken out against the reliability of animal tests in two separate instances this week.
Posted 15 Aug 2008
A news release from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, dated 30 July 2008
Psychiatric Disorders in Chimps Subjected to Lab Experiments Parallel Those in Human Torture Survivors, Study Finds American Physician Presents Data at the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society in Edinburgh; Findings Could Support EU Proposals...
Posted 06 Aug 2008
Sandholme Farm, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
In March and April 2008, as part of a major investigation, Animal Aid visited 10 English pig farms spanning five counties: Cornwall, Somerset, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
Posted 18 Jul 2008
Badgers spared – thank you Mr Benn!
On Monday 7th July, the DERA Secretary of State, Hilary Benn, announced that he has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle. Badgers in Wales, however, remain under threat.
Posted 04 Jul 2008
Animal suffering exposed on ‘Freedom Food’ farm
An RSPCA spokesman told Channel 5 News today (July 2 2008) that ‘the Society’s reputation is, to some extent, at stake’, following an Animal Aid undercover investigation of an RSPCA-approved Freedom Food (FF) chicken farm...
Posted 02 Jul 2008