About

The Center is the first non-profit animal welfare organization that focuses on influencing the conduct of corporations to forge a humane economic order.

Building a humane economy, one company at a time, across a wide range of industries

Read more about how the Center for a Humane Economy shapes the way businesses treat animals

how we do it

1

Issue Evaluation

The Center determines priority issues based on the numbers of animals affected and level of animal suffering.

2

Conducting Campaigns

Using research and partnerships, we lead campaigns on a number of corporate animal welfare issues.​

3

Engaging Corporations

We evaluate companies on their policies and practices regarding the specific animal welfare issue and use our campaigns to convince them to transition from harmful to humane animal practices.

4

Educating Consumers

Targeting our campaigns to multiple media outlets, we alert consumers to corporate animal welfare issue transgressors and highlight innovators and companies leading their field in alternatives to animal use.​

View our successes here.

By adopting new standards through political channels and 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

Learn About Our campaigns

Animal Cruelty Enforcement

Identifying and prosecuting individuals who hurt animals will help stop them from hurting people later

Animal Fighting is the Pits

Working to end cockfighting, one of the biggest underground animal-use industries in the U.S.

Banning Greyhound Racing

Forcing entertainment companies to phase out their dog tracks and save countless dogs from injury and death

Creating a Cage-Free Future

Encouraging food producers to stop purchasing pork and eggs from farms that use extreme confinement

Dunking the Milk Mandate

Working to end a wasteful milk mandate and give kids a plant-based choice

End Horse Slaughter

Working to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption

Getting the Lead Out

Working to end the use of lead ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges

Helping Elephants in Crisis

Working to change Thai law to protect captive elephants from forced labor and maltreatment

Kangaroos Are Not Shoes

Convincing soccer shoe manufacturers to stop killing kangaroos in the largest commercial slaughter of mammals

Modernize Testing

Supporting the FDA Modernization Act to stop the FDA from tormenting beagles, primates and others in new drug approvals

Protecting the Orcas

Only 73 orcas now swim off the Pacific Northwest coast, their numbers dwindled because of salmon overfishing

Rethink Mink

Working to end mink farming which causes suffering and poses health threats due to susceptibility of factory-farmed mink to COVID

Saving Wolves

Working to stop the assaults on wolves in the U.S. where the states have initiated ruthless killing plans for wolves.

Snowmobiles Aren't Weapons

We are working to end the sadistic cruelty of running down wild animals with vehicles.

Tourism Without Trophy Hunting

Working to stop the needless hunting of threatened and endangered wildlife