Public Protest Against Beagle Vivisection — MA
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:◗Join fellow animal lovers in a peaceful protest outside a notorious animal testing facility located just outside of downtown Worcester. Investigative work has confirmed this location holds multiple “dog colonies” — beagles being used in vivisection experiments. They have never known love or sunlight, never walked in the grass or laid in the sun. This facility experiments on other types of animals as well, including mice, rats, rabbits, mini pigs, primates, and more. This facility has flown under the radar for far too long, and it’s time for us to let them know we will not accept animals being tortured in our own backyard!
There will be some (limited) resources available on site, so please feel free to bring your own signs, snacks, and water! While some individuals may choose to chant, it is not required. Even our presence alone sends a powerful message.
There is a Mass Dems convention in Worcester on the same day, so hopefully we will have ample opportunities for outreach and education.
If you need help finding a ride, please reach out and we can try to accommodate.
From Chip:
“Charles River Laboratories — the world's largest contract animal research organization — operates active canine research laboratories occupying multiple floors at this address.
The peaceful protestors will be calling on CRL to end canine experimentation at the facility and comply with the Massachusetts Beagle Bill (MGL c. 140 § 174D½), which requires research dogs to be offered for adoption rather than killed when no longer needed for experiments.
CRL is a documented buyer of beagles from Marshall BioResources, the nation's largest commercial beagle breeding facility, which has accumulated more than 20 federal Animal Welfare Act violations since 2007. The supply chain is established: Marshall breeds them, Charles River buys them, pharmaceutical companies pay for the studies, and the dogs are killed.
The Beagle Bill, signed into law in 2022, was supposed to prohibit this outcome as it requires research facilities to offer healthy dogs for adoption once their research use ends. CRL circumvents this requirement by mandating necropsy — requiring that all dogs be killed and dissected at study's end — thereby eliminating any obligation to offer them for adoption.
The FDA has announced a plan to phase out animal testing requirements, calling animal models an unreliable predictor of human outcomes — with more than 90 percent of drugs that pass animal studies failing in human clinical trials.
The science is broken. The law is being ignored. The dogs are dying. And most Worcester residents have no idea any of it is happening twenty feet below street level at a downtown address they pass every day.
That ends on the 30th, when advocates will peacefully gather on the public sidewalk outside their Union Street facility in Worcester to call on Charles River to immediately cease canine experiments, adopt out all current research dogs to approved rescue organizations, and end its commercial relationship with Marshall BioResources.
Everyone is welcome. Let's make this happen.”
Thank you Chip for organizing this event!
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