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No more newchurch guinea pigs

Sab | 23.08.2005 11:38 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

A farm is to cease breeding guinea pigs for medical research following a long-running campaign of intimidation by animal rights activists

A farm is to cease breeding guinea pigs for medical research following a long-running campaign of intimidation by animal rights activists.
The family-run farm run by the David Hall and Partners firm said it would shut down its guinea pig breeding operations at Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, at the end of the year.
The Hall family has been subjected to a six-year hate campaign by the animal rights movement.
In the most bizarre act of intimidation and hatred grave robbers stole the body of a member of the family called Gladys Hammond from a graveyard in nearby Yoxall, last october.
The family hope the decision to close the farm would prompt those who stole the body to return it or let the police know where it is.
The Hall family said: "David Hall and Partners' involvement in breeding guinea pigs for biomedical research will cease at the end of 2005.
In a statement the Halls said, "The business, which has operated for over three decades, will undergo a phased closure to ensure the welfare of animals involved,” meaning they will sell off the last guinea pigs to a lab.
The family said it was planning a return to "traditional farming".
"David Hall and Partners are planning a return to traditional farming," the statement said.
"They have no plans to be involved in any way in the breeding of animals for medical or scientific research.
"No further comment will be made on the closure of the guinea pig breeding business until it has been finalised at the end of the year."

Sab

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