Free The Beagles
Shut down MBR Acres — the UK’s only facility breeding beagles for animal testing — and put animal testing itself on trial. Backed by 50+ MPs and public figures.
Sign the petition →The campaign
Factory farming stops here.
Millions of animals suffer in brutal factory farms across the UK — and the industry wants to build more. We’re working with local communities to stop every single new factory farm application. Our target approval rate: zero.
The scale of it
Why this is the fight that matters.
Millions
of animals are suffering in brutal factory farms across the UK right now.
Trillions
of animals are killed by the world’s animal farming and fishing industries every year.
Zero
new factory farms approved — that’s our mission. Every application, opposed. Every community, supported.
How we win
Stop them before they’re built.
Before constructing a new chicken shed or pig prison, meat corporations must first obtain planning permission from a local council. That’s their weak point — and our opening.
We track every application across the UK, mobilise the local community, and make the case that wins: animal welfare, climate, water pollution, ecological harm, and traffic. Each refused application is a precedent — and a signal to the next council.
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The other fronts.
In their words
The truth is getting harder to ignore.
“I’ve seen no meaningful change. With the irrefutable evidence of abuse uncovered, I must prioritize my love for animals above all else and step down immediately.”Chris Packham Resigning as RSPCA President after our 2024 investigation
“Completely inadequate.”Brian May On the RSPCA’s response, resigning as Vice-President
The RSPCA Assured scheme has been described as “effectively fraud.”A Crown Court judge On the UK’s most recognised farm welfare label
“Animal research harms patients and holds back medical progress. Superior technologies based on human biology could transform medicine if not for the iron grip of animal research.”Safer Medicines Trust On the case for ending animal testing
Why Animal Rising
A nonviolent, people-powered movement.
We’re working towards a sustainable future where humanity shares a positive relationship with animals and nature — by supporting farming and fishing communities through a just transition to a plant-based food system.
Latest news
From the campaigns and the courtrooms.
Victory for Protest Rights as Supreme Court Rejects Public Nuisance Appeal
A Supreme Court ruling today (14/07/26) [1] upheld the acquittals of six anti-dairy campaigners who disrupted dairy giant Müller’s Droitwich site in…
Read more →Horse Racing Protestors Acquitted After Repeated Jury Refusals to Convict
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped charges against four Animal Rising campaigners who ran onto the tracks at Doncaster Racecourse in 2023,…
Read more →Conviction In Historic Burglary Case For Rescue Of Beagle Dogs From Animal Testing
• In June 2022, three men rescued five beagle puppies from MBR Acres [1] • In the fifth and final “Beagle Rescue…
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