The Consort beagles campaign was founded in 1996 by British animal rights activists Greg Avery and Heather James, with a view to closing Consort Kennels in Hereford, a commercial breeder of beagles for animal testing laboratories.
The company closed in September 1997 after a ten-month campaign[1] consisting of daily protests and raids carried out by the Animal Liberation Front, including the removal in May 1997 of 26 beagles.[citation needed]
The campaign came to public attention on April 24, 1997 on World Day for Laboratory Animals, when an estimated five hundred protesters turned up for a national demonstration at the kennels located in a field off the A49, between Ross-on-Wye and Hereford.[2]
Activists breached the fence causing it to come down, and a handful of protesters crossed the security area and climbed over the compound wall. The area was then secured by three hundred police officers in riot gear,[3] until two masked men appeared on the single storey building holding a beagle they had removed from the kennels.[4] Following an hour of rioting, the pregnant beagle was lowered to a group of around forty people. The dog was later returned to the kennels by police.[5]
^Woolcock, Nicola. Extremists seek fresh targets close to home,[1] 2016-03-03 at the Wayback MachineThe Times, August 25, 2005.
^Mann, Keith. From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement. Puppy Pincher Press, 2007, pp. 519.
^Martin Balluch – The Interview, Abolitionist Online.[dead link]
^Mann, Keith. From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement. Puppy Pincher Press, 2007, pp. 520.
^Mann, Keith. From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement. Puppy Pincher Press, 2007, pp. 521–522.
April 10, 2023
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