In the early hours of the 20th December 2022, 18 beagle puppies were rescued from a life of animal testing at MBR Acres.

Please sign this petition to call on MBR Acres to release them to safe and loving homes.

MBR Acres breeds around 2000 beagle puppies each year for sale to the animal testing industry. They are kept in horrific conditions for 16 weeks, transported into laboratories, and experimented on until death. MBR also has ‘bleeding licences’, which allow them to bleed healthy dogs to death to harvest their blood and organs.

We are a nation of animal lovers, this torture should not, in good conscience, be allowed to continue for dogs, or any animal.

Currently, over 3 million tests are carried out on innocent animals every year in the UK [1]. Yet, as reported in a parliamentary debate this February, 90% are ultimately useless [2].

In a recent parliamentary debate Rachael Maskell, Labour/ Co-op MP for York Central, stated "the investment and focus on non-animal testing practices through the UK road map means that sophisticated science can steer us away from animal experimentation, so we do not have to continue on the path that we have journeyed on to date. We need to pivot to the new world of science that is developing at such a rapid pace."

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2021/annual-statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2021

[2] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-02-07/debates/E7D8AF2F-9BB3-4475-86D6-39091FB54AC4/LaboratoryAnimalsAnimalWelfareAct