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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 ...
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.
As the greyhound racing industry releases its annual data on the number of dogs’ deaths, a raft of well-known names - alongside their canine friends - has called upon the Government to end greyhound ...
This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this ...
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, ...
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, like every other day in the racing calendar, ...
Harry’s Girl killed at Royal Ascot – another victim of this abusive industry Posted on the 18th June 2025 ...
The launch of our Killing Our Countryside campaign in May, by Animal Aid patron Chris Packham, resulted in press coverage in the Mirror and many people getting in touch for an action pack, as well as ...
New information obtained from the Food Standards Agency by Animal Aid (through a Freedom of Information request) reveals the truth behind the smokescreen of ‘glamour’ at Ascot this week. Statistics ...
Last week, I was lucky enough to join around 1,500 delegates attending the Microphysiological Systems World Summit in Brussels. ‘Microphysiological system’ (MPS) is a term which covers ‘organs on ...