Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 40 - June 1997Back to list of articles in this issue

Beagles In Consort

Beagle breeders in Consort. Hereford have watched monthly actions on their kennels grow to national closedown proportions. The latest in May saw the police lines overran and a couple of hundred liberators pouring into kennels. Surprised cops resorted to CS gas but were still powerless in the face of mass action which so far has used up half of their budget.

There's up to 800 beagles at any time in Consort where thousands are bred and sold to vivisection labs every year. Channel Four's "Countryside Watch" has shown the puppies being punched, injected, thrown around and then killed and gutted at just six months old, and all this for profit. Outrage at these scenes have brought thousands to Consort over the past few months with the next action on 6th July promising to be the biggest ever.

Consort is just 5 miles up the A49 from Ross-on-Wye. Meet at 12.00 noon at the main gate. Info call 0171 278 3068