Animal Aid

Urge Cardiff University to stop experimenting on animals

We recently reported that animal experiments at Cardiff University have risen by 13 per cent since 2006. In 2009, the University used 46 cats in research, more than a quarter of all the cats used in research facilities in the UK during that period. Animal Aid has previously exposed Cardiff University in its 2006 'Mad Science' awards, for conducting particularly pointless and grotesque research on rats.

A petition has been set up urging Cardiff University to stop experimenting on animals, and instead adopt humane methods of research.

Stop the Balmoral Hotel selling foie gras

The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh is offering foie gras on its menu, despite widespread condemnation of the cruelty behind foie gras, and a ban on its production in the UK. To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are painfully force-fed through a long metal pipe until their livers swell up to ten times their normal size. Please politely contact the Balmoral Hotel and request that it stops selling this cruel product.

The Balmoral
1 Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2EQ

Telephone: 0131 556 2414

Save Cheltenham Gulls

Cheltenham Borough Council is considering shooting gulls in an effort to control their numbers, following complaints about the amount of noise they make, even though, as autumn approaches, noise levels will naturally diminish anyway. Culls do not work, and in a matter of weeks bird numbers can return to pre-cull figures. And, of course, culling is never humane.

Please politely contact the council and urge them to use a humane method instead:

Cheltenham Borough Council
Municipal Offices
Promenade
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL50 9SA

Telephone: 01242 262626

Help Captive Fish

We have been informed that John Lewis has aquaria full of large and small fish in the make-up departments of its Oxford Street and Bluewater stores - perhaps also others. The ornamental fish industry is motivated by profit. Fish are mass-produced and transported around the world, leading to associated welfare problems and disease risks. Fish are expected to conform to a stipulated colour and quality, and those who don't 'make the grade' are killed. Besides, keeping them in aquaria, when they belong in the oceans, is immoral.

Please contact John Lewis and ask them not to support this exploitative industry:

Noel Saunders
Managing Director
John Lewis
300 Oxford Street
London W1A 1EX

Karen Lord
Managing Director
John Lewis Bluewater
Greenhithe
Kent DA9 9SA