PETA: 'Wicked Wildlife Fund' werkt stiekem mee aan dierproefprojecten

Maar dat kregen we jammergenoeg niet... Wat hadden we anders verwacht. Meer zelfs, WWF verklaarde aan ADC campagneleider Robert Molenaar dat 'dierproeven een noodzakelijk kwaad zijn' ...

WWF is al lang niet vies meer om met bedrijven samen te werken die niet echt wakker liggen van dierproeven. Zo is er bijvoorbeeld de relatie van WWF met Monsanto (die verantwoordelijk zijn voor vele dierproeven) voor het promoten van genetisch gemanipuleerde soja. WWF België Vice-voorzitter, Paul Galand, heeft een lange carrière achter de rug als dierproefnemer en is zelfs nu nog voorstander van dierproeven... Dan beweren dat je manifest tegen dierproeven bent, is wat ons betreft erover! Moeten we dan toch concluderen dat het bij WWF enkel om het geld te doen is?

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been actively pressuring government agencies in the United States, Europe, and Canada to greatly increase the amount of testing that they require for new and existing chemicals and pesticides. The result of the WWF’s lobbying has been the establishment of what threaten to be the largest animal-testing programs of all time...

The WWF has been a major force in pressuring the European Union to amend its Chemicals Policy to require companies to test and retest as many as 30,000 new and existing chemicals. The British Institute for Environmental Health has estimated that this process could kill upwards of 45 million animals if the standard battery of animal-poisoning tests is used. The WWF’s U.S. and Canadian offices are also calling for more testing of pesticides, despite the fact that more than 9,000 animals are already killed for every pesticide on the market. In particular, the WWF has called for certain pesticides to be tested for “developmental neurotoxicity” (DNT) using a test that kills upwards of 1,300 animals each time it is conducted. This test has been heavily criticized by scientists, including the EPA’s own Scientific Advisory Panel, which concluded that “the exposure of rat fetus/pups was not shown to be equivalent to human fetus/infant during equivalent stages of brain development” and that “the current form of the DNT guideline is not a sensitive indicator of toxicity to the offspring.” In other words, the WWF is calling for thousands of animals to be killed in a test that scientists admit is not relevant to humans!