 This was only a few months after the fur farm had been raided by the Great Lakes ELF, which also highlighted the overlap in direct action for animal rights and environmentalism.The group intended to state that the farm they had raided was a joint effort between members of the Animal and Earth Liberation Front.Five days later, the ""Bay Area Cell of the Earth and Animal Liberation Front"" claimed the firebombing of the University of California, an animal research laboratory that was still under construction at the time.