Animal rights protesters occupy dog breeding facility

Nearly 30 animal rights protesters have tried to occupy one of many UK’s largest dog-breeding facility, demanding an finish to animal testing.

Demonstrators from the Animal Freedom Movement (AFM) gathered at Marshall BioResources’ (MBR) Acres in Cambridgeshire the early hours of this morning, calling for the facility to be shut down and any canine there rehomed.

Pictures present quite a few police autos on the web site in Huntingdon, with activists wearing white sat on the bottom carrying banners.

The group advised Metro.co.uk earlier that 12 of their 25 activists had been arrested.

Metro.co.uk has tried to contact Cambridgeshire Constabulary a number of occasions however has not acquired any response.

The AFM need the UK to section out animal testing fully by 2025 and again a ban on all animal-tested merchandise by the identical 12 months.

Numerous experiences have recognized the MBR Acres web site as a location used to breed canine, together with many beagles, used for UK animal assessments.

Activists mentioned this morning that they hoped to occupy the positioning till commitments in direction of their calls for had been made by MBR and The British Government.

Spokesperson Dillon Parsons defined: ‘Using animals for testing isn’t solely merciless, inhumane, and barbaric, it’s fully pointless.

‘There is not any want for practically 3 million painful and torturous assessments on animals within the UK annually when we’ve got know-how that’s extra dependable and environment friendly.

‘The UK claims to be a nation of animal lovers, we demand The Government and MBR show that to be true.’

Disputed experiences declare that 90% of assessments on animals are ‘useless’ – however advocates counsel there’s little various if human testing can’t first be undertaken.

A YouGov ballot final 12 months advised that greater than 4 in ten Brits oppose firms being allowed to check medicines on animals – and practically three quarters are in opposition to testing cosmetics on animals.

One protester on the facility, Rosa Sharkey, mentioned: ‘The science is evident, our morals must be too, an finish to animal testing is the one step forwards for the trade.

‘MBR must do the right thing by closing its Cambridgeshire facility and rehoming the puppies. The British government has a clear mandate from its people to end the barbaric practice of animal testing’

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Government information means that in 2020, 2.88 million assessments had been undertaken on animals within the UK.

Dogs have specifically protected species standing within the UK however are nonetheless examined on.

In the USA, the Environmental Protection Agency has mentioned it’s going to cease conducting research on mammals by 2035.

MBR has been contacted for remark.

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