Race horses, deemed to be the ‘best’, will race for huge cash prizes for humans. It is a scary world even for the winners (horses who have won thousands of...
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Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate for the dogs – it is a day,...
An article in The Independent this week (Tuesday 10) shares world-first footage of egg-laying hens being suffocated to death in gas chambers. The footage, filmed at an RSPCA Assured slaughterhouse,...
Animal protections have advanced encouragingly in recent decades, but one group of species has been almost entirely absent from the conversation: decapod crustaceans. ...
Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. ...
Fur Free Britain, a coalition of animal protection groups, handed in a petition today calling for a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK....
In April 2025, Animal Aid’s investigations team conducted site visits to three game bird breeding farms in Wales, uncovering deeply troubling welfare violations and regulatory failures, and, at one site,...
With the recent 'unseasonably' warm spell, symptomatic of a changing climate, and elevated temperatures predicted to become more frequent and extreme, it's more crucial than ever to be prepared to...
Our brand-new campaign ‘Killing our Countryside: It’s time to ban shooting’, which calls for a total ban on the production and “sport” shooting of live birds for entertainment, has been...
Animal Aid launched our biggest campaign yet, raising awareness of the terror inherent in dairy production a bold new advert. But what made the final cut, and what had to...