Animal Foes

Kind Choices does not ask anyone to boycott any particular organization, only that they factor an organization's positions and policies regarding the treatment of animals into their decision of whether or not to donate to an organization. Kind Choices has found the "Animal Foes" listed here to have particularly egregious records of promoting cruelty to animals.

For a list of health charities that do and do not experiment on animals, please visit HumaneSeal.org

Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense was the driving force behind the Environmental Protection Agency's High Production Volume chemical testing program and called for further testing on animals of thousands of chemicals, even some known to be extremely lethal. Learn more.
edf.org

The Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group has called on cosmetics manufacturers to conduct animal tests that could kill hundreds of thousands of animals and not make cosmetics any safer. It is also trying to pass the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, which would require chemicals to be tested on thousands of animals per test. Learn more.
ewg.org

The March of Dimes
As the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine notes on their website, "The March of Dimes has funded a series of controversial experiments, including brain damaging and freezing newborn ferrets, injecting pregnant animals with cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol, tethering pregnant monkeys to cages by monitoring cables running through the mothers' uteruses and into their fetuses’ bodies, sewing shut the eyelids of newborn kittens, subjecting pregnant sheep to severe dehydration, and deliberately injuring the lungs of newborn lambs. These are just a few of the March of Dimes’ ineffective, unethical experiments on animals that do not help mothers or babies – the most significant advances in understanding the causes of birth defects have come from human-based research." Learn more.
marchofdimes.com

The National Wildlife Federation
The NWF supports regulated hunting, regards wildlife populations as "a renewable natural resource that can safely sustain taking" and has allied itself with many "sportsmen's" organizations.
nwf.org

The Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has pushed the Environmental Protection Agency to test chemicals on animals for developmental neurotoxicity and endocrine disruption even though these tests have not been subject to the same scrutiny as nonanimal tests and the EPA doesn't even know how to interpret the results of one of the tests. Learn more.
NRDC.org

The Nature Conservancy
While the nature conservancy does not take "a formal position either for or against hunting or fishing", they do allow hunting and fishing on some of their "preserves". For a full explanation of this policy click here.
tnc.org

The Sierra Club
The Sierra Club considers hunting and fishing to be "acceptable [wildlife] management approaches..." They also advocate the killing of feral burros "in areas where native habitats have become impoverished because of overpopulation," the capture of wild animals for scientific research and zoos and some commercial "use" of wildlife. For more information on The Sierra Club's policies regarding animals, see their position statements on Feral Animals, Marine Mammals, and Wildlife and Native Plants.
sierraclub.org

The Wilderness Society
"The Wilderness Society recognizes hunting as a legitimate use in wilderness areas, national forests, and certain wildlife areas, subject to appropriate regulation for species protection."
wilderness.org

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The World Wildlife fund is one of the worst animal foes, especially as contrasted with its public image as a wildlife and habitat conservation organization. It has called for animal testing of known toxic chemicals in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The WWF, an organization founded by trophy hunters, has refused to speak out against even the worst abuses of wild animals, such as steel-jaw leghold traps, the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals off of Canada's east coast or the slaughter of elephants for ivory. Learn more.
worldwildlife.org