Welcome to Camp Beagle
Camp Beagle is the world’s longest-running, permanent grassroots animal rights protest camp. We are physically camped outside MBR Acres in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, a dog breeding factory, supplying over 2000 beagle puppies a year to laboratories in the UK and abroad for animal testing. The Camp has been running 24/7 since the summer of 2021 working tirelessly on an exposure and pressure campaign to shut down MBR Acres.
Camp Beagle is situated outside the entrance of MBR Acres.
The MBR beagles live inside windowless industrial sheds. They have no access to the outside world, no natural light, no bedding, not even a bowl of water.
MBR Acres has a Home Office license to bleed the dogs to death, harvest their organs and sell them.
Behind closed doors, they suffer from the moment they are born. As they grow they are deprived of the most basic welfare standards. Then, as young as 16 weeks old, they are shipped out of MBR and taken to laboratories where they will endure torturous experiments.
Photos from inside MBR Acres – Dogs live in metal pens on concrete floors, among their faeces and urine-soaked sawdust.
Whistleblower photo – Beagles are trained to wear inhalation masks for laboratory procedures.
These experiments are both cruel and scientifically flawed:
- During toxicology experiments a chemical or drug compound is repeatedly administered to the dogs, regularly increasing the doses, sometimes for up to 128 days. Administration can be via injection, force-fed via a tube down their throats, applied to their skin or eyes, or forced to inhale chemical gases via a mask. The doses are regularly increased causing the dogs severe pain and yet more suffering. At the end of the experiments, the surviving dogs are always killed, to conduct autopsy reports.
- There are now superior non-animal methods (NAMs) based on human biology and human data which predict more accurately and effectively how the human body will respond to chemicals and drugs. However, the UK Government and the animal testing industry are failing to transition and adopt the NAMs and new cutting-edge technologies required to advance scientific and medical research.
MBR Acres should be shut down today.
Our Patron Isabelle with Scarlett beagle, a survivor of the animal testing industry, campaigner and ambassador.
