The campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, also known as the Close Highgate Farm campaign, is a series of direct actions by anti-vivisection activists. More than ten years in the making, the feature documentary THE ANIMAL PEOPLE, follows a grassroots campaign of seven young activists called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), who formed to fight the horrific and brutal animal cruelty conducted by Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS)—the largest animal testing laboratory in the world, based in England. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was a decentralized, militant animal liberation campaign in the US and UK from 1999 to 2014 that repeatedly brought Europe's largest animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to the brink of bankruptcy. In August 2004, Ferdin accepted the presidency of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), according to statements filed under oath in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. Websites With Animal Rights and Animal Advocacy Event Listings; Cruelty-Free Living. Court appearances Cruelty-Free Brands for Cosmetics, Toiletries, and Household Products. HLS continues to operate as a successful company so the SHAC campaign that has been running for over 10 years has failed. The charges are tied to the group's efforts to post personal information about people associated with HLS on the Internet — information that was then … By Fred Burton A federal jury in New Jersey recently convicted the animal-rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) and six of its key members on charges related to their radical tactics targeting Huntingdon Life Science Inc. (HLS). HLS is the focus of an animal rights group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). The campaign grows into the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) organization, which models itself on the tactics and ideologies espoused by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF—see 1976) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF—see 1997), among others. The campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was set up at the end of 1999 by a group of activists who had successfully closed down lab animal breeders, Consort kennels and Hillgrove cat farm. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC, auf Deutsch etwa: Stoppt Huntingdons Grausamkeit gegen Tiere) ist eine internationale Kampagne aus dem Umfeld der Tierrechtsbewegung, deren Ziel die Schließung von Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), des größten europäischen Tierversuchsunternehmen mit Labors in Huntingdon und Occold in Großbritannien und East Millstone in New Jersey in den … The convicted activists were members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, known as SHAC, a decentralized animal rights movement that spread … Its members picket the HLS labs in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk every morning, lunchtime and evenings.