slaughter revealed video evidence of practices and conditions in UK abattoirs providing horsemeat for human consumption abroad. This included former race industry horses. The investigation was featured in a 2021 BBC Panorama programme, The Dark Side of Horse Racing. Later that year the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced that it would not permit the sale of race horses to abattoirs to be slaughtered for meat. Race Horse Death Watch is Animal Aid’s online database that records thoroughbred deaths on British racecourses. In March 2022 Animal Aid launched the Irish Horse Death Watch website which lists all horses killed due to racing on racecourses in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Game bird shooting: Animal Aid campaigns for an end to the production and shooting of animals for pleasure. Some 50 million pheasants and partridges are intensively farmed every year so that they can be released and shot for sport. In 2010, the outgoing Labour government was about to ban the metal battery cages in which thousands of egg-producing pheasants and partridges are confined to their productive lives. But this was overturned by the incoming Coalition government. Animal Aid continues its campaign for the cages to be outlawed. Veganism: Animal Aid promotes a cruelty-free diet, provides free cookery demonstrations in schools, and sends out free information packs and other literature. A central feature of the campaign is the Great Vegan Challenge, which is staged every November. Living without cruelty: Animal Aid promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle, encouraging people to help end animal suffering through ordinary, everyday decisions which choose compassion over cruelty. It focuses on clothing, cosmetics, toiletries and household products, such as cleaning materials and duvets. Animal Aid discourages participation in sport and leisure activities which kill animals or cause animal suffering. It exposes animal suffering in the pet trade, and recommends adopting companion animals from rescue centres, sanctuaries or shelters rather than buying them from pet shops or breeders. It also encourages people not to buy exotic pets. Christmas Fayre Animal Aid's Christmas Festival is held every year, early 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