The Animal Freedom Movement (AFM) want the UK to phase out animal testing completely by 2025 and back a ban on all animal-tested products by the same year.
HARRISON JONES: Nearly 30 animal rights protesters have attempted to occupy one of the UK’s largest dog-breeding facility, demanding an end 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 dogs there rehomed.
Pictures show numerous police vehicles at the site in Huntingdon, with activists dressed in white sat on the ground carrying banners. The group told Metro.co.uk earlier that 12 of their 25 activists had been arrested… The AFM want the UK to phase out animal testing completely by 2025 and back a ban on all animal-tested products by the same year…
One protester at the facility, Rosa Sharkey, said: ‘The science is clear, our morals should be too, an end to animal testing is the only step forwards for the industry. ‘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’…
Numerous reports have identified the MBR Acres site as a location used to breed dogs, including many beagles, used for UK animal tests. Activists said this morning that they hoped to occupy the site until commitments towards their demands were made by MBR and The British Government.
Spokesperson Dillon Parsons explained: ‘Using animals for testing is not only cruel, inhumane, and barbaric, it is completely unnecessary. ‘There is no need for nearly 3 million painful and torturous tests on animals in the UK each year when we have technology that is more reliable and efficient. ‘The UK claims to be a nation of animal lovers, we demand The Government and MBR show that to be true’…
Dogs have specially protected species status in the UK but are still tested on. A YouGov poll last year suggested that more than four in ten Brits oppose companies being allowed to test medicines on animals – and nearly three quarters are against testing cosmetics on animals. SOURCE…
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