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 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 dogs from injury and death
Defending Barred Owls
Working to stop the killing of 400,000 barred owls in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Kill Plan
Creating a Cage-Free Future
Encouraging food producers to stop purchasing pork and eggs from farms that use extreme confinement
Elephants in Crisis
Working to protect and rescue Thailand’s captive elephants facing privation, forced labor and maltreatment
Getting the Lead Out
Working to eliminate lead use in ammunition since it’s a known toxin that kills raptors and all wildlife.
Kangaroos Are Not Food
Pressing pet food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and distributors to stop buying and selling kangaroo meat
Kangaroos Are Not Shoes
Convincing soccer shoe manufacturers to stop killing kangaroos for soccer shoes
Modernize Testing
Supporting the FDA Modernization Act to stop the torment of beagles, primates and others in new drug approvals
No Flight, No Fight
Working to shut down international trafficking pipelines moving American fighting roosters to cockfighting pits overseas
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 because of salmon overfishing
Rethink Mink
Working to end mink factory farming causing suffering and health threats due to susceptibility to COVID
Saving Wolves
Working to stop the assault on wolves in the U.S. where the states have initiated ruthless killing plans for wolves
Tourism Without Trophy Hunting
Working to stop the needless hunting of threatened and endangered wildlife