London Animal Action campaigns on animal rights issues from hunting to veganism and supports extremists jailed for direct action. The group has a network of wildlife sanctuaries in the West Country. The League Against Cruel Sports is the main anti-hunting campaign group. See Arkangel for ALF news.Р”В«ritish Union for the Abolition of Vivisection opposes animal experiments and campaigns peacefully. ALF's guiding principles state the campaigns are non-violent and do not harm animals or humans, but those who have been the target of tactics from arson attacks and hatemail to campaigns of intimidation might argue differently. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a loose collection of anonymous individuals and small groups who carry out direct action campaigns, often damaging and destroying property to cause a financial loss to companies the group believes are abusing animals. The group carries out undercover investigations to publicise its cause in the media. The following is a guide to some of the major players in animals rights in the UK:Р”Р„nimal Aid campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. The groups making up the animal rights movement vary enormously, from the laudable (RSPCA inspectors rescuing abandoned pets and injured wildlife) to the activist (the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' campaigns).

The extreme wing of the animal rights movement has targeted company directors and employees and their families in their homes, run hate mail campaigns, broken into workplaces and taken crowbars to equipment and terrorised suppliers into withdrawing from projects the movement views as cruel to animals.Р”Р„ similar campaign of intimidation successfully persuaded Cambridge University to drop plans for a primate lab and has isolated the animal research firm Huntingdon Life Sciences. The firm in charge of building the Р’Р€18m facility, Montpellier, had seen its shares fall by 19% as activists targeted the company and its shareholders. Animal rights activists claimed another victory this week when a construction company pulled out of its contract to build an animal experiment laboratory at Oxford University.

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