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The campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, also known as the Close Highgate Farm campaign, is a series of direct actions by anti-vivisection activists. Highgate Rabbit Farm in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire in England is licensed by the Home Office to breed rabbits and ferrets for animal-testing facilities, including Huntingdon Life Sciences. Actions have included a raid by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and an arson claimed by the Militant Forces Against HLS. The ALF raid in 2008 saw 129 rabbits removed and £100,000-worth of damage to property.〔(Animal rights activists in court ), ''Market Rasen'', 24 October 2008.〕 The campaign has been linked to activists involved in Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).〔(Rabbit farm raid accused 'impressionable' ), ''This Is Lincolnshire'', 1 May 2009. *Also see ("Rabbit breeder 'felt sick' at campaign" ), ''Lincolnshire Echo'', 30 April 2009.〕〔("Highgate Farm" ), ''Close Highgate Farm'', accessed 16 January 2011.〕 ==Background== Highgate Farm, based in the village of Normanby by Spital, Market Rasen, is one of a number of animal-testing facilities in the UK that have been targeted, and in several cases closed, by anti-vivisection campaigners since 1997.〔 Consort Kennels, which bred beagles for animal research, was closed that year after a ten-month campaign.〔Woolcock, Nicola. ("Extremists seek fresh targets close to home" ), ''The Times'', 25 August 2005. *Also see Mann, Keith. ''From Dusk 'til Dawn: An insider's view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement''. Puppy Pincher Press, 2007, pp. 519–522.〕 Shortly afterwards, Save the Hill Grove Cats—run by the same group of campaigners—was set up in opposition to Hill Grove farm in Oxfordshire, which bred cats for laboratories, successfully closing the farm in 1999.〔Pallister, David. (Embattled breeding farm closes ), ''The Guardian'', 14 August 1999.〕 The Hill Grove campaign then set up Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty to close Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract animal-testing facility, a controversial campaign that continues. In parallel, Shamrock Farm in Sussex, Britain's only non-human primate importation and quarantine centre, was targeted; it closed in 2000 after a 15-month campaign by "Save the Shamrock Monkeys," and an investigation by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.〔Mann 2007, p. 556.〕 Regal Rabbits in Surrey, which bred rabbits for animal laboratories, closed in 2000, and Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs was set up in Staffordshire against Darley Oaks Farm, which supplied guinea pigs for animal research, ending in May 2006 after a controversial grave desecration claimed by the Animal Rights Militia.〔("Police comb desecrated grave site" ), BBC News, 9 October 2004. *Also see ("British Animal Rights Protesters Admit Plotting Against Farmers" ), Reuters, 11 April 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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