Animal Aid background notes on pet horses and ponies
The British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) http://www.beta-uk.org/ conducted the National Equine Survey, the results of which were published in 2006.
Posted 18 Sep 2007
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Animal Aid background notes on horse slaughter
The Fate of Horses: Horses may end their days at a UK abattoir for a number of reasons – sickness, old age, they prove too costly, or (for race horses) they are deemed inadequate to...
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Secret filming reveals the rise and collapse of the ‘battery cow’
Footage taken inside British dairy farms by Animal Aid exposes a shocking new development in the industry: the arrival of the almost permanently confined ‘battery cow’.
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Appeal Court victory for Animal Aid campaigners
Two Animal Aid supporters have won a landmark Appeal Court victory over police attempts to criminalise them for running a high street information stall, from where they sought public support for a ban on primate...
Posted 09 Sep 2007
Horse slaughter in an English abattoir
Animal Aid filmed covertly at Potter’s abattoir, Taunton, during August 2007.
Posted 18 Aug 2007
Government loses High Court vivisection case
The High Court in London has ruled that the government has been underplaying the severity of suffering experienced by animals in laboratory experiments.
Posted 27 Jul 2007
Revealed! 40% of birds shot for ‘sport’ are wounded and never recovered
A former senior officer with Britain’s leading shooting lobby group has revealed that up to 40 per cent of all birds shot at for sport are wounded rather than killed outright, and are never recovered.
Posted 25 Jun 2007
RCVS fail to silence criticism of vet vivisector
An animal researcher, who was a recipient of an Animal Aid Mad Science Award (AAMSA), has failed in his attempt to get Animal Aid’s scientific consultant struck off the register of veterinary surgeons.
Posted 25 Jun 2007
Cheltenham Science Festival: report from Gloucestershire Animal Action
Cheltenham Science Festival, Tipu Aziz and the Orwellian nightmare come true!
Posted 14 Jun 2007
Judge condemns police over Oxford lab protest
Fourteen SPEAK campaigners who took part in a peaceful protest against the proposed Oxford University animal labs have walked free from court after the District Judge condemned Thames Valley Police for unlawfully stopping their protest...
Posted 01 Jun 2007