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
Evaluating Issues
We determine 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.​
See the successes of our engagement strategies
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
Elephants in Crisis
Thailand’s captive elephants face privation, forced labor and maltreatment. We're working to rescue and protect them
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 America’s Horses
Working to protect domesticated and wild horses from slaughter, inhumane capture and unsafe horse racing.
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
Beagle Release
1,500 beagles escaped the laboratory pipeline — now we must help tens of thousands of others
Saving Wolves
Working to stop the assaults on wolves in the U.S. where the states have initiated ruthless killing plans for wolves.
Soaring, Not Suffering
Stopping toxic threats and mass killings to protect America's birds of prey.​
Tourism Without Trophy Hunting
Working to stop the needless hunting of threatened and endangered wildlife