Animal Rising Press

Defendants (L-R): Jennifer D’Netto, Andrew Houghton, Dev Vyas, Rose Patterson, and John Sasportas This afternoon, following over two weeks of trial and deliberation spanning three days, a jury at Peterborough Crown Court has acquitted five defendants charged with burglary after the rescue of 18 beagle puppies from MBR Acres in December 2022 [1]. MBR Acres is understood to be the UK’s only facility breeding dogs for the animal testing industry and has been subject to massive public and...

Photo taken at a demonstration against adding Life Sciences to Key National Infrastructure (5/1/26) Last night, a letter signed by dozens of cross-party MPs, celebrities including Dame Joanna Lumley and Amanda Holden, and animal organisations such as Animal Rising and PETA, was sent to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP [1]. The letter calls for an immediate closure of MBR Acres, the only site in the UK breeding dogs for the animal testing industry, alongside the safe rehoming of all the...

Dear The Home Office and Secretary, Shabana Mahmood MP, We write to you as an incredibly deeply concerned and caring group of public figures and animal lovers. We are calling for the immediate closure of the puppy breeding facility, MBR Acres, as part of an urgent transition away from all animal testing in the United Kingdom. MBR Acres, as you may know, is a facility in Cambridgeshire with the sole purpose of breeding beagle puppies for the utterly unnecessary animal testing industry - an...