Animal Wellness Action Hails Major Victory for Horses as Anti-Horse Slaughter Language Adopted in Highway Bill

The Federal Government’s Negligence in Combating Staged Animal Fighting and Trafficking of Fighting Animal

Are We on the Cusp of a New Era of Cruelty-Free Medicines?

Canadian Slaughter Plant That Butchered U.S. Horses Shuts Down

We are rescuing dogs from Ridglan Farms because the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 enabled it

Trump Administration Resurrects Archaic Poison Bombs No One Wants

The War on Crows — and the Collapse of Hunting Ethics

Investigators Unpack Cockfighting Trade That Spans from Mid-America to Manila

Staged Animal Fighting Threatens Hunters and Environmentalists

The Cody Roberts Case — and What Comes Next

VIDEOS

ABC News on Ridglan Beagle Rescue with Center for a Humane Economy

WEBINARS

The Great Beagle Rescue from Ridglan Farms

PODCASTS

The Humane Economy Under Fire: 10 Years Later

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

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

In our Dunking the Milk Mandate campaign, the Center led the congressional campaign to end the 80-year-old cow’s milk mandate in the National School Lunch Program and to bring choice in the form of plant-based milks to kids in schools.

Eliminating Greyhound Racing

As the key maneuver 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.

Act Now

to give voice to the voiceless

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

End ANImal Testing

Compel the FDA to halt the outdated, inhumane use of animals in drug screening.

Stop Animal Fighting

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

Prevent 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 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.

End the use of confinement crates

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

Save Kangaroos from Slaughter

Prohibiting the importation and sale of products made from kangaroo parts to the U.S., one of the world’s biggest markets for “k-leather” would close.