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Home | Friday 7th August 2009 | Issue 686

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RABBITING ON

Animal rights activists have been camping it up this week outside animal breeders, Highgate Farm, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Highgate Farm, owned by Geoffrey Douglas, supplies ferrets and rabbits to the vivisection industry.

Twenty-five activists occupied the road side next to the farms main entrance in what they say is “only the beginning of a major campaign”. The camp lasted seven days and was apparently ‘a pretty fluffy affair’. According to one camper we spoke to “It was really good – the farmer was furious and police seemed to be pretty reasonable. We think they’re worried it’s gonna be the next Newchurch” (See SchNEWS 509). The mood was slightly dampened after one Deliverance style inbred threw a dead rabbit onto site.
Our camper said “There will be more camps – the only reason this one was packed up was to prevent the council from getting a legal order to clear the road-side”.

Highgate Farm has seen plenty of previous action. See SchNEWS 677 ‘Slipping the Net’ for how Netcu failed in their prosecution of activists.

For more on this and and innumerable other AR actions check out www.shac.net and www.directaction.info

Keywords: animal rights, direct action, highgate farm, lincolnshire, vivisection


 

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