One Company. Two Countries. Same Fight.
MBR Acres is one site. The company that owns it — Marshall BioResources — runs facilities in the United States as well. Closing one operation without closing the other only shifts the cruelty. We are aligned with Save the Dogs USA on the wider Marshall campaign. Independent organisations, one parent company, one fight.
Marshall’s Operations
Marshall BioResources is one of the world’s largest commercial breeders of dogs for laboratory testing. It operates breeding facilities in two countries.
MBR Acres
Marshall’s UK arm. Wyton, Cambridgeshire. Approximately 2,000 beagle puppies bred every year for sale to laboratories. Operates under a Section 2C establishment licence under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Five Crown Court trials in 2025–26: two acquittals, three convictions with suspended sentences. Westminster Hall debate 27 April 2026. Judicial review of the new protest-laws regime pending in the High Court.
Marshall Farms
Marshall’s primary US operation in upstate New York, plus contracts and supply relationships to laboratories including those that previously sourced from Ridglan Farms, Wisconsin (Ridglan is now releasing 1,500 beagles after a multi-year campaign by Save the Dogs USA).
US targets named in the Save the Dogs USA campaign include Governor Kathy Hochul (NY), Attorney General Letitia James, Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY 23), and federal Members of Congress.
Why This Matters
A campaign that closes MBR Acres but leaves Marshall’s US operations untouched does not stop the breeding business model — it just relocates it. The same is true in reverse. Save the Dogs USA put it directly:
“Marshall is one company — closing one operation without closing the other only shifts the cruelty.”
— savethedogs.io / marshall
Two independent campaigns, on two sides of the Atlantic, applying pressure to one company. Different legal regimes, different tactics, same target. That is the model.
1,500 Beagles. Out.
Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin is the closest US analogue to MBR Acres. After years of investigations, a 2025 court probable-cause finding for felony animal cruelty, sustained nonviolent action including a 1,000-strong gathering met with tear gas, and cross-party congressional pressure — Ridglan agreed on 29 April 2026 to release 1,500 beagles. Transfers begin 1 May 2026.
The same Marshall-supplied breeding model is at MBR Acres. The same tools work. The route is visible.
The Full Ridglan StoryHow this campaign sits
Save the MBR Beagles started as a purely independent UK campaign and is still independently run. As the wider fight against Marshall BioResources has come together across both sides of the Atlantic, we’ve been happy to align with allied campaigns — including Save the Dogs USA, the Beagle Freedom Project, Animal Rising, Camp Beagle and the broader UK coalition of welfare and protest groups working to end commercial dog breeding for laboratory testing. Different organisations, different countries, different tactics. One outcome we are all working towards: empty buildings.
What You Can Do
The MBR Acres fight benefits from the global pressure on Marshall. The Marshall pressure benefits from the MBR Acres legal record. Both work better in tandem.
One Movement
UK ground action and US solidarity feed each other. The dogs are why.
Sources for this page: savethedogs.io/marshall (Save the Dogs USA campaign overview, accessed May 2026); savethedogs.io/ridglan (Ridglan campaign timeline and 1,500-beagle release announcement, 29 April 2026); bfp.org/ridglan (Beagle Freedom Project rescue placement appeal); Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin and Associated Press for congressional and Wisconsin governor coverage. UK court record drawn from public Crown Court reporting and Hansard for the 27 April 2026 Westminster Hall debate.