Highgate Rabbit Farm breed rabbits and ferrets for animal experiments (click here for more info). They were exposed in 2008 when anonymous people entered the farm to find rabbits living in bare metal cages suspended above thick excrement and urine. As you can see from photographic evidence (see photo left - and row of three photos on the far right - all from Highgate Farm), the rabbits were crammed into cages in a windowless shed. Their first and only glimpse of daylight is the short time in which they are loaded from their cages into a van to be shipped into animal testing laboratories.

Huntingdon Life Sciences is one of the laboratories who use Highgate as a supplier of rabbits. They are the most contraversial lab in the world, having been exposed seven times in the past 12 years. Undercover and ex-workers have all expressed their concern over gross animal cruelty, falsification of data, and sloppy work procedures. HLS have been exposed punching puppies in the face, cutting open monkeys while they're still alive, shouting, slapping, and hitting animals, and breaking the law on numerous occasions. As recently as 2008, HLS were witnessed traumatising animals so much they vomited faeces and collapsed.