About the Center for a Humane Economy

How We Do It

Benchmarking Standards

Developing specific and practical measures for companies to track and normalize animal welfare practices internally.

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Assessing Industry Performance

Analyzing business practices across animal impact industries and issuing white papers on their overall performance on animal welfare.

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Championing Alternatives

Highlighting innovators and companies leading their field in alternatives to animal use.

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Educating Consumers

Inspiring and educating the public about significant corporate impacts on animal welfare.

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Engaging Corporations

Partnering with companies to transition from harmful to humane animal practices.

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Lobbying Policymakers

Supporting laws and regulations that improve the welfare of animals in captivity and in the wild.

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Conducting Campaigns

Using research and partnerships to lead campaigns on a number of corporate animal welfare issues.

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Learn About Our Campaigns

Modernize Testing

We are working to eliminate the FDA requirement for animal testing as the only test method for any new drug development protocol — which bar the use of faster, cheaper, and more reliable test methods.

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Re-think Mink

We are working to end mink farming for fur -- an industry that causes immense suffering to mink and poses major animal and human health threats because of the unique susceptibility of factory-farmed mink to SARS-CoV-2. Read our report here on Mink Farming & SARS-CoV-2.

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Kangaroos are Not Shoes

Nike has a supply chain that drives the killing of millions of wild kangaroos every year in Australia — the largest commercial wildlife slaughter in the world. It makes soccer cleats from kangaroo skins even though it has dozens of models of cleats and other athletic shoes made entirely of human-made materials.

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Cage-Free Future

We are working toward a national policy to ban gestation crates on pig farms and small cages at laying hen facilities. So far dozens of major food retailers including Safeway, McDonald’s and Subway have pledged to phase out the use of pork or eggs from producers who confine sows in gestation crates by 2022 or laying hens in cages by 2025.

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Saving Wolves

We are working to stop the assaults on wolves across their range in the United States, including in Idaho, Montana, and Wisconsin where the states have initiated particularly ruthless killing plans for wolves.

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Banning Greyhound Racing

Greyhounds get injured or die at the tracks they continue to streak around the few ovals where this spectator sport continues. We're working to make sure no private business is involved with this kind of inhumane enterprise.

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Elephants in Crisis

Thailand advertises the elephant as an icon, central to its culture and business. But after Thailand restricted logging, more than 3,000 captive elephants were reemployed in tourist enterprises — with inhumane training techniques, unending labor and abandonment or chaining during economic downturns.

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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 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

About

How We Do It

Benchmarking Standards

Assessing Industry Performance​

Championing Alternatives

Educating Consumers

Engaging Corporations

Lobbying Policymakers​

Conducting Campaigns​

Modernize Testing

Re-think Mink

Kangaroos are Not Shoes

Cage-Free Future

Saving Wolves

Banning Greyhound Racing

Elephants in Crisis

Assessing Industry Performance

Lobbying Policymakers

Conducting Campaigns