Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom

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Cases
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UCR 1985 laboratory raid
Unnecessary Fuss

Companies
Jackson Laboratory
Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
Covance · Harlan
Huntingdon Life Sciences
UK lab animal suppliers
Nafovanny · Shamrock

Groups/campaigns
AALAS · AAAS · ALF
Americans for Medical Progress
Boyd Group · BUAV
Dr Hadwen Trust
Foundation for Biomedical
Research · FRAME
National Anti-Vivisection Society
New England Anti-Vivisection Society
PETA · Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine
Primate Freedom Project
Pro-Test
SPEAK · SHAC
Speaking of Research
Understanding Animal Research

Writers/activists
Tipu Aziz · Michael Balls
Neal Barnard · Colin Blakemore
Simon Festing · Gill Langley
Ingrid Newkirk · Bernard Rollin
Jerry Vlasak · Syed Ziaur Rahman

Categories
Animal testing · Animal rights
Animal welfare

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Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom breed animals such as rodents, rabbits, dogs, cats and primates which they sell to licensed establishments for scientific experimentation. Many have found themselves at the centre of animal rights protests against animal testing.[1]

Campaign methods have included leafleting, demonstrations, verbal and physical intimidation, false accusations of criminal activity such as paedophilia, destruction of property, arson, the use of explosive devices and a grave-robbing.

Many smaller breeders have gone out of business, concentrating the market around larger international companies, such as Charles River Laboratories and Harlan,[2] or to forcing pharmaceutical companies and universities to breed animals in-house. For example, after Shamrock Farm closed in 2000, there were no commercial importers of laboratory primates left in the UK. To address this shortage, Cambridge University planned to build Europe's largest primate facility. However, they withdrew their plans following a concerted campaign by animal rights activists.

The trend has been for companies that experiment on animals to threaten to pull out of the UK.[3] The chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, Jean-Pierre Garnier has said: "I work hard to bring in investment to the United Kingdom and have talked many times to friends who are in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology businesses about moving here. But there is one issue that exists only in the UK and nowhere else has a comparative effect from extreme actions by animal rights activists." [4]

Former commercial laboratory animal breeders in the UK include:

Bred of pigeons, ferrets

Bred Deer

Bred beagles. Closed in 1990

Traded monkeys which were bought from zoos

Bred and sold dogs

Breeders of rats and mice. Closed 2003.

Hamsters. Closed 2002

Closed 2009. Bred small animals and marmosets

Bred Cats and Farm Animals. Closed 2004.

Bred rodents. Closed 2011

Bred rodents

Bred beagles. Closed 1995.

Bred Rabbits. Closed 2010

Bred Pigeons. Closed 1988

Distributed dogs and cats.

Bred farm Animals - Closed 2000

Breeders of beagles. Also traded primates and rodents. Closed 1997.

Breeders of guineapigs. Closed Jan 2006.

Breeders of guineapigs. Closed Jan 2006.

Breeders of Frogs and Reptiles. Closed in 2005.

Supplied pigs. Closed 1980

Butterflies. Closed 1997

Breeders of Rabbits, ferrets. Closed 1998.

Beagles, rodents. Closed 2002

Rabbits and mice. Closed 2000.

Breeders of guinea-pigs. Closed 1990.

Closed 2000. Supplied Frogs and Amphibians

Bred rodents. Closed 2004.

Breeders of guineapig and rabbits. Closed 2000.

Closed 2004. Bred Guinea-Pigs

Closed 1995. Bred rodents.

Bred chickens. Closed 2011.

Breeders of cats. Closed in 1998.

Bred Rabbits. Closed 1985.

Bred rabbits.

Bred Rabbits. Closed 1994.

Bred chickens.

Closed 2008. Breed horses, dogs, rodents, rabbits.

Bred rabbits and pigeons. Closed 2004.

Bred pheasants, ducks and quail. Closed 2010

Closed 1985. Bred rodents.

Breeders of Guinea-Pigs. Closed1980

Closed 2010

Bred Cattle and chickens. Closed 1980.

Bred Cats for the University of Oxford. Closed 1997.

Closed 1987

Closed in 1999. Bred Rabbits, Dogs, Cats, Primates

Closed 2007. Bred dogs and cats.

Closed 1999

Bred Guinea-Pigs

Breeders of rabbits and ferrets. Closed in 2000.

Bred Rabbits. Closed 1995.

Cows for use at GlaxoSmithKline

Bred cats.

Breeding of rodents, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Closed 2008.

Bred rodents

Importers of primates. Closed in 2000

Bred rodents, cats, rabbits. Closed 1990

Closed 1990.

Bred chickens.

Breeders of Rodents for Huntingdon Life Sciences. Closed 2000

Snails, locust and frogs

Bred rodents.

Breeders of goats. Closed 2004

Breeder of SPF chickens for vivisection. Closed 2009.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Field Station. Closed 1992

Bred Syrian Hamsters. Closed 2004

Closed 1991

References

  1. ↑ Conn, P. Michael and Parker, James V (2008). The Animal Research War, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-60014-0
  2. ↑ Buyers Guide: Charles River Laboratories UK, Lab Animal.
  3. ↑ Extremist animal rights activists pose main threat to economy, The Times, 10 December 2004.
  4. ↑ Glaxo chief: animal rights cowards are terrorising us, The Telegraph, 27 April 2004.
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