Animal Aid

Animal Aid
Founded 1977 (1977)
Founder Jean Pink
Type Animal rights
Focus Vivisection, animal farming and slaughter, animal rights, shooting, veganism, horse racing, and wildlife culls. Promotes cruelty-free living.
Location
Area served
 United Kingdom
Method Campaigning, cruelty-free fairs, undercover investigations
Website www.animalaid.org.uk

Animal Aid, founded in 1977 by Jean Pink, is a British animal rights organisation.[1] The group campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse - including the consumption of animals as food and their use for medical research - and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. It also investigates and exposes animal cruelty.

Animal Aid conducts undercover investigations,[2] produces campaign reports, leaflets and factfiles, as well as educational videos and other resources. They also offer a quarterly magazine and a sales catalogue with cruelty-free products.

Aims and objectives

Animal Aid was founded in January 1977 to work, by all peaceful means, for an end to animal cruelty. The organization is a not-for-profit limited company run by a volunteer council of management. It has not applied to be a charity, so that it is able to use its funds for sometimes controversial campaigns. Its aims are:

Celebrity supporters

Animal Aid has had a wide range of celebrity supporters, including Thom Yorke, Stella McCartney, Richard Wilson, Wendy Turner Webster, Massive Attack, Alexei Sayle, Benjamin Zephaniah, Martin Shaw, Chrissie Hynde, Alan Davies, Peter Tatchell and Reverend Professor Andrew Linzey and the late Tony Benn.

Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek, the primatologist, has supported the Animal Aid campaign against primate experiments, stating: "I have yet to hear a sufficiently compelling scientific argument that justifies the suffering inflicted on primates in medical research."[4]

Campaigns

Animal Aid campaigns[5] include:

Christmas Fayre

Animal Aid's Christmas Fayre is held every year on the first Sunday in December, in London, England, to promote a cruelty-free lifestyle.

There are goods for sale including fair trade crafts and jewellery, cruelty-free cosmetics, recycled goods, environmentally friendly clothing, non-leather boots and shoes and seasonal cards and gifts. There is a lecture programme throughout the day, plus a wide variety of vegan food. It is promoted as a family event.

There is also an annual South West Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre held in Exeter, England.

See also

References

  1. "Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations". www.dango.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  2. "Animal Aid: Undercover investigations". www.animalaid.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  3. "Animal Aid: Aims & objectives". www.animalaid.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  4. "Animal Aid: History of the campaign to stop Cambridge University building a massive monkey research centre". www.animalaid.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  5. "Animal Aid: Animal Aid campaigns". www.animalaid.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  6. "Major charity stops funding animal experiments | Victims of Charity". www.victimsofcharity.org. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  7. "Care and research". Marie Curie. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  8. Meikle, James. "Supermarkets force abattoirs to fit CCTV after secret film exposes abuse". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  9. "Slaughterhouse CCTV | Animal Aid's campaign for mandatory CCTV and independent monitoring in all UK slaughterhouses.". www.slaughterhousecctv.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  10. "Secret halal slaughterhouse film reveals 'horrific' animal abuse". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  11. "Race Horse Death Watch". www.horsedeathwatch.com. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  12. "Shocking picture shows racehorse champion Wigmore Hall destroyed at packed course". mirror. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  13. "Beware invasion of the 50,000,000 pheasants as shooting season starts". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  14. "The great animal rights betrayal". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  15. "Animal Aid: 'Game' bird shooting". www.animalaid.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  16. "Early day motion 402 - USE OF CAGES TO REAR BIRDS FOR SHOOTING". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  17. "Take the Great Vegan Challenge". www.govegan.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-13.

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