Human hate groups have threatened a massive protest against a new AstraZeneca global headquarters complete with a medical laboratory to be built in Cambridge, UK. According to Cambridge News, the pro-animal wackos state if the new lab is built it will be it will be the new Huntingdon Life Sciences.

That says alot. The Huntingdon Life Sciences lab is also located in Cambridge and a long time target of human hate organizations since the company conducts medical tests on animals. Though they do stage non-violent protests, so-called animal rights groups have been known to known to engage in harassment and intimidation such as bomb and death threats. One incident involved a company manager being the subject of a mass mailing to his neighbors. The letter sent to them made an unsubstantiated claim that the manager had a history of child molestation. The head of the group responsible for these activities, Heather Nicholson, and six others were arrested, charged, and sentenced to time in prison for the group’s smear and intimidation campaigns in 2009.

Cambridge News also advises that animal rights activists are already vowing that if the new building goes forward, it will be a campaign as big as the one for Huntingdon Life Sciences and have even been able to enlist the help of other gang green groups such as Friends of the Earth (year, right!). While there is also local opposition to the new structure, I, for one, hope it gets built. Not just as a thumbing of the nose to mean greenies but because medical testing on animals saves lives. AstraZeneca states they have made efforts to reduce the number of tests done on animals but that won’t stop groups like Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (aka SHAC).