ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Animal Aid UK | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/animalaid/activity/ Activity feed for Animal Aid UK. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:53:31 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3e1dbdfc31026077574a75585503cc9f Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, UK Government Announces Plans to Phase out Badger Cull https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29545 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:33:07 -0700 It was widely reported earlier this month that the government of the United Kingdom has announced that it intends to phase out its annual badger cull. We welcome this long-awaited step towards ending this cull […]

]]> 0 1c321521f5f1468b5ea37aac788a6383 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Rats Shot in the Eyes: The Terrible Reality of Warfare Experiments https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29151 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:04:30 -0800 Animal Aid reveals more grotesque warfare experiments on living animals. These experiments, described as “Rat Blunt Ocular Injury Model,” and conducted at the University of Birmingham, were found in a paper […]

]]> 0 8ed2fd88710eb906f636b4ae5bf63db5 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, 186 British Race Horses Killed in 2019 https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29122 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:37:45 -0800 Animal Aid’s detailed research into race horse deaths found that 186 horses died in England in 2019 as a direct result of racing. This alarming figure shows no sign of improvement in comparison to the fatality r […]

]]> 0 962a05fd73ad4b4f711b0ac6349708cd Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Scapegoating the Aliens: "Invasive" Species https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28397 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:54:00 -0800 A special report by Animal Aid director Andrew Tyler

Animal Aid has long been concerned about the growing tendency among what might be called ‘top table conservationists’ to scapegoat various animal species […]

]]> 0 3fb9f3d4dbcba422c06694966c6da4a1 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, 2,000 British Race Horses Dead: The Shame of the Racing Industry https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28217 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:20:15 -0800 Animal Aid’s website Race Horse Deathwatch was launched in 2007 to expose the deaths of horses on British racecourses.

Image from Race Horse Deathwatch

The first horse whose death was entered on the w […]

]]> 0 22c7ec24aba8548b26a9558b812327e7 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Ban the Whip in UK Horse Racing https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26835 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:08:04 -0700 Horse racing’s regulatory body in the United Kingdom, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) sanctions the use of the whip by jockeys for two purposes: to keep rider and mount safe, and for ” […]

]]> 0 e1075da266004a3f23d5cc8bfc7d02c0 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Pigs Shot or Blown Up for Military Medic Practice https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26678 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:45:40 -0700 It has been revealed, through a United Kingdom parliamentary question, how military medics are being sent to Denmark to take part in exercises involving pigs being given “bullet and blast wounds.”

The animals […]

]]> 0 14e23056c98eef54b9d6f3edd89a1f02 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Incompetence and Chaos Run Rife at Welsh Slaughterhouse https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26527 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:38:53 -0700 Animal Aid investigators have revealed hidden animal suffering at Farmers Fresh lamb slaughterhouse in North Wales. They obtained four sets of film on visits between March26th and June 3rd of this year.

The […]

]]> 0 6f7b2a64cd3bd611428ca085a045bbbb Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Baby Animals Used to Grow Pathogens at Secret UK Government Laboratory https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25680 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:00:02 -0700 Using the Freedom of Information Act, Animal Aid UK has obtained the minutes of internal meetings that contained summaries of some of the experiments being conducted at Porton Down, a government laboratory located […]

]]> 0 5aa7d14a2e27701ec6c152e5428d468e Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, The Trouble With Horse Racing https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25388 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:05:30 -0700 Note: this article is written with an emphasis on the horse racing industry in the United Kingdom, though many of the larger themes explored here are present in other nations’ horse racing industries as […]

]]> 0 3c5a6eb447b2da45d1c8bdfd7b55cd61 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, What’s Wrong with High-Welfare Animal Products? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24364 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:52:52 -0700 Meat, milk and eggs produced under so-called ‘higher welfare’ schemes – including Freedom Food, free-range and organic – have become increasingly popular amongst consumers in recent years, thanks in part to high […]

]]> 0 95f8c0d524290c1ac3939790653ac44c Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Pressure Builds on Cheltenham and the British Horseracing Authority to Suspend Racing as Three Horses Killed https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24080 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:44:17 -0700 On the last day of the Cheltenham Festival, two more horses lost their lives, one of whom died in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

In the first race of the day, Sir Erec, a 4-year-old colt, who was hot favorite to win […]

]]> 0 2f116049ba1630e7b1d2abbe144582f1 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Situation for Wild Boar in the United Kingdom Becomes Increasingly Dire https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23748 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:52:53 -0800 With natural habitats dwindling, and wildlife suffering from the impact of human activities, it is remarkable when wild boar can survive and thrive. We should protect the boar, not demonize and persecute […]

]]> 0 1a5b207004295a9c0c480056bf1d7758 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Five Reasons to Make Going Vegan Your New Year’s Resolution https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22751 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:01:09 -0800 Any time of year is perfect for ditching animal products – but January offers the incentive to try something new, and there are lots of good reasons to give it a go. Here’s 5 reasons why you should consider t […]

]]> 0 46fe85c913d957beb7aac111087e31d1 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Say No to Horse-Drawn Carriages https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22589 Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:54:06 -0800 A ride on a horse-drawn vehicle might at first appear to be a romantic, nostalgic journey to a bygone era when cars and buses were absent. However, this industry is actually fraught with potentially serious […]

]]> 0 c354b75c52dd67abd541b306b7c51c73 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Five Things You Can Do To Help Animals This Christmas https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22175 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:54:44 -0800 1. Spare the turkey

Each year in the United Kingdom alone, 10,000,000 turkeys are killed for Christmas dinners. The majority of these animals will have spent their short lives on factory farms where they […]

]]> 0 c1c061fce6ab83fa9c6f0ab4fc3aa129 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Parkinson’s charity plans cruel experiments on monkeys https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=21512 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:23:57 -0800 Parkinson’s United Kingdom (UK), through their drug development arm Virtual Biotech, will give more than £780,000 [over one million United States dollars] to fund work which will include testing a drug named NLX […]

]]> 0 2b1b4fccafe0f68453d42212033b95ce Animal Aid UK's profile was updated https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/20978/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:05:54 -0700 0 ca45cb1c9b0e514aaceb3ec2201a7e9f Animal Aid UK changed their profile picture https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/20977/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:05:47 -0700 0 b3344da710645b7da421560ef87ad866 Animal Aid UK wrote a new post, Mice Matter https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=21422 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 19:01:04 -0700 Animal Aid’s newest campaign aims to educate people about the sensitivity of mice, how this sensitivity cannot be accommodated in laboratories, how mice deserve the same consideration as other animals, and how m […]

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