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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
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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
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Horse slaughter in an English abattoir
Animal Aid filmed covertly at Potter’s abattoir, Taunton, during August 2007.
Posted 18 Aug 2007
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Cheltenham Science Festival: report from Gloucestershire Animal Action
Cheltenham Science Festival, Tipu Aziz and the Orwellian nightmare come true!
Posted 14 Jun 2007
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Exposed! Race horse vivisection
A new report, published this week by Animal Aid, describes a series of painful and often lethal laboratory experiments conducted on race horses, mountain ponies and other equines. Many of the experiments are directly, or...
Posted 16 May 2007
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A ‘pissed off’ Robert Wells quits Countryside Alliance concert
As noted by The Independent (24 April 07), the Countryside Alliance’s Countryside Rocks concert has run into a spot of bother as one of their scheduled performers, Robert Wells – the world-famous pianist, singer and...
Posted 24 Apr 2007
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Animal Aid launches Horse Race DeathWatch
National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
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Boost for campaign to stop ruddy duck slaughter
National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
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BBC apologises for silencing horse racing industry critic
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007