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The government has today (10 July) announce that it will ban the use of lead shot, with a three-year phase-out period.
Animal Aid and our supporters have been at the forefront of campaigning to end the use of animals in research. Progress has been painfully slow for animals, but looking back it’s clear we have come so ...
Yesterday, Animal Aid hosted a roundtable in Westminster, to meet with MPs and other invited guests to discuss the ending the LD50 and other animal tests.
A rabbit farm franchiser is vying to set up a further rabbit meat and fur farm in Lyndon Top, Rutland. He has already had planning refused at sites in Cornwall and Buckinghamshire. Our investigators ...
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join our campaigns team to lead our work to expose the cruelty of animal farming.
If the failings of the racing industry were to be represented in a single issue, it is that of the deaths of hundreds of horses each year. 2021 proved no exception with a record number of victims ...
We’re delighted to share the news that the Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill has passed its final stage in Parliament, delivering on the government’s longstanding commitment to ending the export ...
Chris Packham launches our new campaign to ban shooting. Killing Our Countryside reveals the devasting environmental impact of bird shooting.
Following on from the horrendous scenes we witnessed at the 2023 Grand National, a YouGov poll finds that most people believe the race is cruel.
Shocking figures obtained by Animal Aid show that 112 horses were killed on British racecourses from January – June 2024, and there were 299 abuses of the whip.
It’s early in the year, but we are already getting messages and calls from kind people who want to do more to help animals, so we've put together a few ideas.
The Cheltenham Festival takes place between 11th-14th March - and will be surrounded by the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty ...