Protecting the environment is a worthwhile goal. But ironically, organizations including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are doing the planet and its inhabitants a grave disservice by lobbying for increased animal testing of chemicals that pose a threat to the environment.

Using animal tests to determine the toxicity of chemicals and pesticides is not only cruel, but bad science. In fact, not a single animal test has ever gone through the same rigorous validation process that non-animal tests must pass. Sadly, as a result, WWF is selling out animals and the environment.

That’s why PETA and activists around the world need your help with our campaign to stop these horrific tests on animals. Our campaign includes the following:

• pressuring the WWF and other environmental groups to support only non-animal testing methods

• in collaboration with the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) and the Dr. Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, developing an alternative strategy for the testing of chemicals for potential “health” effects that does not involve killing animals in cruel poisoning studies

• exploring legal options for challenging the government’s unlawful use of tests that have never been scientifically “validated” for reliability and relevance to humans

• pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a subcommittee dedicated to alternatives to animal test methods with a PETA representative serving as an active member of that committee

• funding the development and validation of alternatives to animal tests

The WWF is already under intense pressure from caring people worldwide to stop its support of animal tests, and we believe that this important fight can be won—but only with your support. Here’s how to help today:

• Write or call the WWF.
• Click here to donate online.

Despite killing hundreds of thousands of animals in painful chemical toxicity tests, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical in more than a decade.