BUILDING
a humane economy one business at a time
WORKING
with businesses to build a humane economy
TOGETHER
we can help animals in a humane economy

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

29 Pennsylvania Lawmakers Join Animal Protection Groups in Petition to Ban Live Pigeon Shoots

After Bombshell Report of Viral Pathogen on Utah Mink Farm, Veterinary Experts Warn Congress of Biosecurity Danger in Farm Bill

21 Wildlife Scientists and Other Specialists Warn Amendment 83 Could Threaten Colorado’s Longstanding Ban on Bear Baiting

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to learn about our work

March for Animals at Marshall BioResources

Colorado Wildlife at a Crossroads: Understanding Amendment 83

New World Screwworm: Protecting Animals Without Closing the Door on Rescue

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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to give voice to the voiceless

You can easily send an email that will benefit animals by clicking ACT NOW below.

END TAX-FUNDED DOG AND CAT EXPERIMENTS

Dogs and cats should not suffer in laboratories when better science to protect both people and animals exists.

STOP THE BARRED OWL MASSACRE

The “Barred Owl Management Strategy,” is costly, unworkable, impractical and therefore doomed to fail.

SIGN OUR PETITION TO STOP THE EXPORT OF BUSHMEAT

Tainted bushmeat fails inspection, is exported out of Australia, and ends up as burgers and dog food in the U.S.

PREVENT ANIMAL FIGHTING

It’s barbaric and entangled with illegal gambling, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and human-on-human violence.

END THE USE OF CONFINEMENT CRATES

We want animals conscripted into food production to be able to move freely.

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.