Editing Beagle (section)

===Bans and activism against Beagle testing===

Testing of cosmetic products on animals is banned in the member states of the European Community,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/cosmetics/html/cosm_animal_test.htm|title=Cosmetics and animal tests|publisher=European Commission&nbsp;— Enterprise and Industry Directorate General|year=2007|access-date=9 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629081459/http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/cosmetics/html/cosm_animal_test.htm|archive-date=29 June 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> although France protested the ban and has made efforts to have it lifted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=ahaDhWAXharI&refer=europe|title=Animal-Testing Ban for Cosmetics to Be Upheld, EU Court Rules|publisher=Bloomberg|date=24 May 2005|access-date=9 July 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930065529/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=ahaDhWAXharI&refer=europe|archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref> It is permitted in the United States but is not mandatory if safety can be ascertained by other methods, and the test species is not specified by the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-205.html|title=Animal Testing|publisher=US Food and Drug Administration|year=1999|access-date=9 July 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070523010844/http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-205.html |archive-date = 23 May 2007}}</ref> When testing toxicity of food additives, food contaminants, and some drugs and chemicals the FDA uses Beagles and [[miniature pig]]s as surrogates for direct human testing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/oc/ofacs/fdasbo/businesspub.html|title=How to do Business with FDA|publisher=US Department of Health and Human Services|access-date=11 July 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050803014243/https://www.fda.gov/oc/ofacs/fdasbo/businesspub.html| archive-date = 3 August 2005}}</ref> The Beagle Freedom Project has successfully advocated for Beagles to be adopted or released from labs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bfp.org/|title=Beagle Freedom Project|website=Beagle Freedom Project|language=en-US|access-date=19 January 2025}}</ref> Minnesota was the first state to enact a Beagle Freedom adoption law in 2014, mandating that dogs and cats are allowed to be adopted once they have completed research testing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/260128011.html|title=Beagle Freedom Law makes history in Minnesota|work=Minnesota Star Tribune|date=21 May 2014|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref>

Anti-[[Animal testing|vivisection]] groups have reported on abuse of animals inside testing facilities. In 1997&nbsp;footage secretly filmed by a freelance journalist inside [[Huntingdon Life Sciences]] in the UK showed staff punching and screaming at Beagles.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://dbsst.org/case_histories/full_text?id=79|title = Seeing Is Believing&nbsp;— cruelty to dogs at Huntingdon Life Sciences|first = Zoe|last = Broughton|work = The Ecologist|date = March 2001|access-date = 1 July 2015|via = dbsst.org|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150701132818/http://dbsst.org/case_histories/full_text?id=79|archive-date = 1 July 2015|df = dmy-all}}</ref> [[Consort Kennels]], a UK-based breeder of Beagles for testing, closed down in 1997 after pressure from animal rights groups.<ref>{{cite news|first=Nicola|last=Woolcock|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1749489,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112013727/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1749489,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 January 2008|title=Extremists seek fresh targets close to home|work=The Times|date=25 August 2005|access-date=9 July 2007 | location=London}}</ref>

There are various examples of activists utilising [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]] requests to obtain information about taxpayer funding of animal testing. The [[White Coat Waste Project]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/11/15/saving-dogs-from-government-research-labs-gets-some-bipartisan-attention/|title=Should dogs be guinea pigs in government research? A bipartisan group says no.|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=15 November 2016}}</ref> reported that the [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] funded experiments in which 28 Beagles were infected by disease-causing parasites and that dogs taking part in the experiments were "vocalizing in pain."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2021/07/30/fauci-funding-wasteful-deadly-dog-tests/|title=WCW Exposé: Fauci Spend $424K on Beagle Experiments, Dogs Bitten to Death by Flies |date=30 July 2021}}</ref> In response, [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)]] called on all members of the [[National Institute of Health]] to resign<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/peta-calls-for-dr-fauci-to-resign-our-position-is-clear|title=PETA calls for Dr. Fauci to resign: 'Our position is clear'|website=[[Fox News]] |date=5 November 2021}}</ref> and stated that there is a "need to find a new NIH director to replace the outgoing [[Francis Collins]] who will shut down research that violates the dignity of nonhuman animals."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peta.org/blog/fauci-niaid-puppies-animal-testing/|title=Experimenters Fed Puppies' Heads to Infected Flies, but That's Not All Fauci's NIH Funded|date=25 October 2021}}</ref>