Save the Beagles: Shut Down MBR Acres

MBR Acres breeds thousands of beagle puppies each year at its site in Cambridgeshire, selling them on for painful, outdated experiments. More reliable and ethical alternatives exist, but these dogs are still being tortured in the name of science.

This is the UK’s chance to be a global leader in modern, humane testing methods that save lives without cruelty. It’s time to shut down MBR Acres for good.

MBR Acres is a house of horrors. Behind its locked gates in Huntingdon, over 2,000 beagle puppies are bred every year, only to be used, abused, and killed in the name of “science.” You can help us end this forever.

Some puppies are bled and dissected on-site, their organs harvested. Others are shipped off for toxicology testing, where they suffer unimaginable pain - poisoned, force-fed chemicals, then killed.

But this doesn’t need to happen. MBR Acres does not need to kill puppies. Scientists have already created new testing methods that can replace these beagles today!

Here are the powerful, proven alternatives to animal testing:

  • Organ-on-a-chip technology
  • AI and advanced computer modelling
  • Human cell-based testing

These methods are more accurate, more ethical, and they don’t require animal cruelty.

This needless suffering is why in 2022, Animal Rising rescued 23 puppies from MBR Acres. This year, the 20 rescuers will be taken to court, pleading not guilty to “burglary.”  This is the year animal testing will be put on trial.

There are growing calls from the public to save these beagles and all animals from outdated, torturous experiments. And that is why we are calling for the Home Office to phase out animal testing, starting by immediately closing MBR Acres and advocating for investment into modern testing methods which are ethical and more reliable.

The UK has a chance to lead the world in modern, humane science by investing in cutting-edge alternatives like AI and organ-on-a-chip technology. It's time for the government to put our scientists, our economy, and our values first. By backing innovation instead of cruelty, we can protect the animals we love and spare countless lives, human and non-human alike.

Please join us in calling for the Home Office to safely rehome the beagles and shut down MBR Acres once and for all.

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  • Dr Borbala Vaczy
    signed 2025-12-18 03:28:43 +0000
  • Kytana Chavez
    signed 2025-12-18 03:21:01 +0000
  • Paul Hassett Paul Hassett
    signed 2025-12-18 03:04:26 +0000
  • Angela Carter
    signed 2025-12-18 03:01:26 +0000
  • Susan Young
    signed 2025-12-18 02:58:54 +0000
  • Adrianna Deptula
    signed 2025-12-18 02:55:44 +0000
  • Klaudia Lwowska
    signed 2025-12-18 02:44:57 +0000
  • Annabelle Sanns
    signed 2025-12-18 02:44:56 +0000
  • Brook Patterson
    signed 2025-12-18 02:44:22 +0000
    Dogs don’t deserve to go through this they should be playing in the yard with the family and dying from getting grey and old. Not from testing.
  • Dr. TIMOTHY McCarthy
    signed 2025-12-18 02:40:58 +0000
  • Ingrid Phin
    signed 2025-12-18 02:39:40 +0000
  • Tamara Williams
    signed 2025-12-18 02:34:49 +0000
  • Carina Gonzalez
    signed 2025-12-18 02:04:47 +0000
  • Graham Robertson
    signed 2025-12-18 02:04:34 +0000
  • Toni Hunt
    signed 2025-12-18 01:59:57 +0000
    We have no similarities to these animals and what is done to them is utterly barbaric!
  • Colleen Spears
    signed 2025-12-18 01:55:04 +0000
    Thus cannot happen anymore !cruelty to the extreme
  • Ursula Mack
    signed 2025-12-18 01:50:39 +0000
    It is high time to end this archaic, barbaric unreliable method of vivisection. We should bring in quantum healing mostly based on frequency, light and other plus dont forget the healing of herbs. Time to rethink the whole sickness industry.
  • Tara Puccio
    signed 2025-12-18 01:47:59 +0000
  • Nevaeh
    signed 2025-12-18 01:44:59 +0000
  • Cody Martin
    signed 2025-12-18 01:37:37 +0000
  • Angeles Fernandez
    signed 2025-12-18 01:30:21 +0000
  • Janis Goddard
    signed 2025-12-18 01:28:37 +0000
  • Jasmine caraci
    signed 2025-12-18 01:26:46 +0000
  • Pamela Paikopoulos
    signed 2025-12-18 01:22:23 +0000
    These terror holes must be shut down. WE know they don’t give accurate information for human use. There are donated skin graftes ,body organs that can be used , there is technology that is now days so progressive that it gives accurate results as opposed to using these poor souls
  • tracy richards
    signed 2025-12-18 01:21:06 +0000
  • Pam Jones
    signed 2025-12-18 01:20:58 +0000
    I find this testing totally abhorrent & barbaric considering there are now humane, less antiquated ways of testing.

    It’s not the 1960’s any more!
  • Tabitha Totten
    signed 2025-12-18 01:14:23 +0000
  • Paula Boeira
    signed 2025-12-18 01:14:21 +0000
  • Abhisek Roy Choudhury
    signed 2025-12-18 01:08:50 +0000
    Stop cruelty
  • Gita Anjali
    signed 2025-12-18 00:57:37 +0000