Business of Animal Welfare
Deal Inked to Transfer 1,500 Beagles from Ridglan Farms to Animal Protection Groups
MODERNIZE TESTING
Korean Air to End Shipping Fighting Roosters to the Philippines
ANIMAL FIGHTING IS THE PITS
China’s Smithfield Foods in Position to Further Dominate U.S. Pork Production
CAGE-FREE FUTURE
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The Fight to Close America’s Largest Dog Breeder for Lab Tests
Marshall BioResources, with Its 20,000 Captive Beagles, in the Spotlight
New Momentum to End the Slaughter of American Horses
We’re Taking the Fight for America’s Owls to the American People
Oklahoma Voters, Judge Deliver Verdicts Against Animal Fighting
The Trump Administration Moves to Rescind the Roadless Rule
Trump Administration Resurrects Archaic Poison Bombs No One Wants
The War on Crows — and Collapse of Hunting Ethics
Investigators Unpack Cockfighting Trade That Spans from Mid-America to Manila
Staged Animal Fighting Threatens Hunters and Environmentalists
OUR
successes
The Center for a Humane Economy has achieved landmark victories across multiple industries — from pharmaceuticals and agriculture to entertainment and commercial trafficking of animals.
Modernizing the $1.35 Trillion Pharmaceutical Industry and Reducing Animal Testing
Through our Modernize Testing campaign, the Center led efforts to end the federal mandate for animal testing in drug development.
Ending the Use of Kangaroo Leather in Major Sportswear Companies
Our Kangaroos Are Not Shoes campaign convinced the top nine global athletic shoe brands, including Nike, Puma, Adidas, and New Balance, to abandon kangaroo leather in soccer cleats.
Promoting and Defending Cage-Free Animal Agriculture
Our Cage-Free Future campaign helped uphold California's Prop 12 and other state laws limiting in-state sales of animal products from factory farms using immobilizing crates and cages.
Crippling the Global Cockfighting Crime Syndicate
Through our Animal Fighting Is the Pits campaign, the Center helped outlaw cockfighting in all U.S. jurisdictions — including the U.S. territories.
Breaking the Dairy Monopoly in Public Schools
Our Dunking the Milk Mandate campaign led the congressional campaign to end the 80-year-old cow’s milk mandate in the National School Lunch Program, bringing choice in the form of plant-based milks to kids in schools.
Eliminating Greyhound Racing
In our Ban Greyhound Racing campaign, the Center supported the Florida ballot initiative to ban greyhound racing, closing 12 tracks and collapsing two-thirds of the U.S. industry overnight.
HOW
we do it
1. Evaluating Issues
Priority issues are determined based on the numbers of animals affected and level of animal suffering.
2. Conducting Campaigns
We research techniques and partnerships to lead campaigns on a number of corporate animal welfare issues.
3. Engaging Corporations
Companies are evaluated on their policies and practices regarding the specific animal welfare issue, and we use our campaigns to convince them to transition from harmful to humane animal practices.
4. Educating Consumers
We target our campaigns to multiple media outlets, alerting consumers to corporate animal welfare issue transgressors as well as innovators and companies leading their field in alternatives to animal use.
We need not accept the idea of routine cruelty in agriculture, entertainment, wildlife management, or any other part of our economy and culture. Together, by reinforcing what business leaders are doing and ready to do, we can create a new normal when it comes to our human relationship with animals.
— Wayne Pacelle, The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals
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End AnImal Testing
Dogs and cats should not suffer in laboratories when better science to protect both people and animals already exists.
Prevent Animal Fighting
It's barbaric and entangled with illegal gambling, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and human-on-human violence.
Stop horses from being eaten
We want to ban horse slaughter and prohibit the sale or transport of horses and horse parts for human consumption.
End the use of confinement crates
We want animals conscripted into food production to be able to move freely.
End Bear Baiting
We must stop trophy hunters from shooting more than 10,000 bears every year by luring them with bait piles on federal lands.
Save Kangaroos from Slaughter
We want to prohibit the importation and sale of kangaroo leather and close one of the world's biggest markets.