Animal extremists to target M&S

ANIMAL rights fanatics are threatening to target Marks & Spencer this week in their campaign against drugs-testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Extremists from the fanatical group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) say they will hold 'non-violent' protests outside M&S stores because a freight company used by the retailer is a subsidiary of gas company BOC, a supplier to Huntingdon Life Sciences.

A sinister statement on their website says: 'BOC and its logistics arm are up to their necks with animal killers. M&S has a strong ethical policy and any links to firms involved in killings is unacceptable.'

The group is demanding that the store severs links with BOC, which supplies gas to Huntingdon. It hopes this will put pressure on BOC's freight firm to stop working for Huntingdon.

A spokesman for M&S said the link between the retailer and Huntingdon was 'very tenuous indeed'.

Shac said it will press ahead, despite new laws to prevent activists, like the one pictured below, from targeting workers. Tony Blair says he will support firms under attack by extremists.