The University of Oxford animal house is nearly completed. Now, animal rights extremists are desperately trying to ‘deploy new tactics’ for the time after the lab’s opening. Mel Broughton told The Oxford Student, ‘there will be a battle that we take to the University and the lab. Our tactics are evolving. We will be there fighting.’

Leading activists like Broughton and his friends from the ALF seem to have realised that they have lost all hope of stopping the Oxford lab. It looks like the extremists are under pressure from their supporters to show some action. The leaders of the animal rights movement have to justify why they are rapidly loosing public support. I could imagine many supporters of the movement are frustrated because the animal house is going to open soon and their (violent) tactics, justified by Broughton and his friends, seem to have clearly failed.