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 ...

Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate ...

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, ...

Each year inside British laboratories, around 3 million animals are experimented on. Every 8 seconds, one animal dies. Cats, dogs, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys and other animals are used ...

Animal protections have advanced encouragingly in recent decades, but one group of species has been almost entirely absent ...

Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. This Friday and Saturday (6th and 7th June) is the Epsom Derby Festival – a ...

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 launched by ...

As the Grand National passes, the terrible deaths and abuse of horses may fade from most people’s minds. Sadly, there are myriad other ways that humans exploit and harm horses - for our entertainment ...