Sir Paul McCartney has written to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) asking that it immediately stop promoting an enormous new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that would kill tens of millions of wild and domestic animals in painful tests of chemicals already on the market, even some chemicals that have been previously tested. Sir Paul’s letter on behalf of PETA, with which he has had a long affiliation, urges WWF to accept PETA’s alternate proposal, to use more sophisticated and efficient test methods that do not involve animals and to change the focus of the program to push for restrictions on contaminants known to be harmful.

Sir Paul writes, “Please, find your heart and use your head,” and includes a quote from Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, who condemned such test programs as “blind” and “impossible” more than 20 years ago. PETA has already persuaded the EPA to forgo the use of approximately 800,000 animals in outdated tests but is now battling the poorly thought out, WWF-supported, EPA “Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program,” which spells a hideous death for many more.