Public Facing Website for this campaign
1512 Webster Ct #253, Fort Collins, Larimer County, CO 80524
Bronco Research Services, LLC PO Box 1417, Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-232-1122
USDA Registration Number 84-R-0091
Inter Agency Report Control No 0180-DOA-AN
OMB Approved 0579-0039
Events
Signature gathering at Fort Collins Farmers Market Sept 6th 10 – 1
Signature gathering at Larimer County Farmers Market Sept 12 10 – 1
Past Events
Working Meeting at Donya’s Sunday July 12th
Protest onsite at Bronco on Wednesday July 15th
Working Meeting at Alexis’ Thursday July 23
Protest and citizen engagement Aug 1st 5-9 pm Fort Collins downtown
Social and Planning at Donya’s Aug 9th 5pm
Signature Gathering at Tour de Fat Aug 28th 9 – 3 pm
Details
History
2022 Everett MA passes a complete ban on animal testing; to partially revert it in 2025 to allow small ugly animals to be tested on.
April 2026: Beagles die from overdose
June 2026: A cease and desist letter was hand delivered to Bronco staff and a copy was emailed to them.
July 2026: Activists showed up at the facility with signs making sure Bronco understood that we’re here to stay. IG post
July 2026: A press release was sent out to local reports who had covered AR work in the past before the first protest outside the facility.
USDA/APHIS Reports
APHIS Cutomer # 507737
Certificate Number 84-R-0091
Class R – Research Facility
APHIS search portal doesn’t have inspection reports, but ARLO has two pages: Inotiv and Bronco Research Services
Report 03-24-2026
Learning from Ridglan, Envigo, and Red Beast (aka High Quality Research)
DATCP in WI was instrumental in shutting down Ridglan
CO doesn’t have anything like DATCP
Animal testing facilities are covered under AWA
USDA inspects research facilities that use regulated animals at least once a year. [USDA/APHIS]
Animal testing doesn’t fall under CO PACFA protections
Article on closing of Red Beast
Red Beast has more AWA violations but all with less severity than Bronco. APHIS Red Beast inspection reports: 02-19-2025 07-31-2025
Envigo was ‘convicted’ by the DOJ. Ridglan reached a settlement with Circuit Court [avma]. Red Beast was not ‘convicted’, they chose to shut down operations
There is no documented connection between activism and Red Beast shutting down.
Working Groups
Signature Gathering
Adding validity to our other efforts by collecting signatures on letters to be sent to city council
Larimer County Elected Officials Committee
Meeting with Fort Collins city council and larimer county commissioners to find out what can be done about animal testing in the area.
CO Senators Committee
Meeting with federal senators representing CO to discuss animal testing support
Communications Committee
Social Committee
Fostering a community feeling for activists to make friends and feel part of a collective.
Research Committee
Researching relevant local and state laws to find things that’ll help with bans or prosecution.
To Do
If you’ve gotten any of this work done please email me to update the website: mbrpressure@gmail.com
You can also access our shared documents in the google drive.
ToDo – Research
- Read through these resources to find out how to navigate the process.
- Understand how DATCP in WI was motivated to pursue charges against Ridglan? How can we do the same? What takes you from APHIS reports include violations to charges? Document process here
- Understand what laws, local or federal, they could be violating.
- What cities or states in the country have passed animal testing bans?
Have they faced legal opposition after passing due to conflicts with state or federal laws - With Ridglan, the lead vet lost their license, can we enforce that to happen here? What state agency manages vet licenses? How can one be lost? What is the vet’s name?
- Learn what shipping company they’re using and get the DOT number of the truck, the company is likely not operating in accordance with regulations.
ToDo – Document Writing
- We should have different types of statutes to propose
- Requiring regular unannounced inspections
- Ending animal testing
- Other creative ideas…?
- We need a draft statement/resolution for politicians (state and federal congress) to release that states they oppose animal testing.
- Write tutorials on how to setup meetings with city council reps, state senate, and federal senate reps.
ToDo – Contacting People
- Schedule meetings with representatives of state congress seats
- 9News covered Red Beast , can we get them (Amanda Gilbert) to cover Bronco
Lawyer Help – C B
- Would a city or state statute conflict with state or federal laws and be revoked?
- Write a state wide statute so we have it to hand to state congress representatives
- What licenses does Bronco need to operate? What is needed to revoke them? Veterinarian license, license to test on animals, …?
- Can USDA inspectors issue civil fines?
Strategy
Outreach
Excel doc showing organizations that have already been contacted. There was very little response; current advice is to try to get someone’s direct email, phone, or social media account and contact them.
PACFA Listed Organizations in Larimer
Contacting Representatives
Setup meetings with your officials governing this area. If you live local this goes all the way down to the city council. If you’re elsewhere in CO, this includes talking to state officials: congressional representatives, state representatives, governor, and attorney general. Request these people to put pressure on regulators to conduct unannounced inspections. Request that these officials express public support for a bill to end animal testing.
Federal Congress
COMPACT act (proposed): removes federal funding to testing on dogs and cats
Human Cosmetics Act (proposed)
State Statutes
CA Humane Cosmetic Act Summary (passed)
CA Humane Cosmetic Act (passed)
MA PPETS (passed): not testing on cats and dogs unless needed
City Statutes
Evette MA Bans and Unbans animal testing: this can give statute writing a place to start for a full ban on animal testing.
Fort Collins City Council
cityclerk@fortcollins.gov
970-221-6515
City Attorney’s Office
Telephone970-221-6520
Email caoadmin@fortcollins.gov
Changing Laws
City Ballot Initiative
State Ballot Initiative
This is not realistic, but proposing it would make us look like we’re stronger than we really are as a movement. It would also spark some public attention.
Proposing City Statutes
We can approach this by requesting that the city council pass a statute or publish a resolution. I have drafted a resolution and Lief drafted an ordinance. The ordinance is a ban that could be enforced; while the resolution is a non-binding statement of opinion.
- write a statute – Done
- Write an convincing concise argument – Done
- Contact every city council representative asking for support – Done
- Sign up to speak at meetings
- Create physical template letters for people to sign including spots for their name and address – Done
- Hand out and hang up flyers with instructions to contact city council – Done
- Stand outside grocery stores and attend public gatherings to request that civilians sign the letter and mail it
City Council members that support us can be directed to send our letters to State-wide representatives.
Legal Enforcement
Prosecute them like was done at Ridglan or Envigo?
Press
Hold protests, speak outs, and vigils near the facility in Fort Collins to have a public statement of the issue and raise awareness
Representative Contact List
There are many addresses of people in power in this document. (Thanks Evette)
Andrew Boesenecker – CO House of Representatives for 53rd district Larimer County
andrew.boesenecker.house@coleg.gov
Phone: 303-866-2917
Attn: Andrew Boesenecker
200 E Colfax RM 307
Denver, CO 80203
Yara Zokaie – CO House of Representatives for 52rd district Fort Collins
yara.zokaie.house@coleg.gov
Phone: 303-866-4569
Attn: Yara Zokaie
200 E Colfax RM 307
Denver, CO 80203
