Bred to be stuck in a crate then flown to a UK laboratory

MISERY OF TEST BEAGLES

- NADA FARHOUD

DOZENS of caged dogs were lined up outside at an airport waiting to be flown to Britain and used in labs for medical research.

The desperate-looking beagles were filmed locked in containers before being loaded on to a plane at Copenhagen, Denmark.

They are among more than 1,000 to have been imported from the US via Copenhagen in the past two years.

They were jetted in despite Britain having one of the world's biggest beagle-breeding facilities.

MBR Acres in Wyton, Cambs, is owned by US firm Marshall BioRescources and produces about 2,000 of them a year for experimental use.

But Freedom of Information requests revealed in the two years to January, 1,092 dogs have been imported.

One of the Danish FOIs revealed a consignment of beagles was sent to LabCorp in Huntingdon, which is just 15 minutes from MBR Acres.