In the ‘00s, animal rights protestors of the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. How did this winning campaign fall apart? The weaponization of the post-9/11 global ’war on terror’ led to a brutal crackdown of scores of animal rights activists, who where violently arrested and imprisoned.
NOVARA MEDIA: For many people, the name ‘Huntingdon Life Sciences’ will live forever in infamy… In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. But at the last moment, the government made a dramatic U-turn, blocking the attempt to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences and throwing activists in jail. How did this winning campaign fall apart? Why was the ‘war on terror’ a crucial turning point?…
‘Your Neighbour Kills Puppies‘ tells the complete inside story of this remarkable campaign and the forces arrayed against it. It exposes a murky world of institutional animal exploitation, government collusion, corporate lobbyists, agent provocateurs and police spies desperate to silence dissent.
Author and campaign veteran Tom Harris transports the reader into the heart of the action, through underground tunnels and illicit animal rescues, before detailing the brutal state-led crackdown which saw scores of activists violently arrested and imprisoned… In this podcast, Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown is joined by Tom Harris for an in-depth interview. SOURCE…
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