The Center for a Humane Economy

We Must Ensure the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act is Properly Enforced and Prevent History from Repeating Itself

Just Out of the Gate, HISA Already Fails a Transparency Test

With Joe Exotic and Other Menagerie Owners Out of Business or in Legal Trouble, It’s Time to Enact Safeguards for Captive Big Cats

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Breaking Down the Upcoming Case Against Prop 12 Before the U.S. Supreme Court

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We can help save the companion animal victims of Russia’s aggression

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House Restricts Trade in Big Cats for Use As Pets in Homes and Props at Roadside Menageries

Breaking Down the Upcoming Case Against Prop 12 Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Human-Relevant Test Methods Can Improve Drug Development. It’s Time to Use Them.

Breaking News

Prop 12: Pig Industry Objections Are Baseless, Argue Veterinarians and Animal Welfare Advocates in Two Briefs Submitted to U.S. Supreme Court

August 15, 2022

Center for a Humane Economy: NYC must stop carriage rides until medical evaluations are conducted on the horses

August 13, 2022

Civil Rights, Nutrition, and Animal Groups Call for an End to Dairy Industry Monopoly in Public Schools That Sickens Millions of Lactose-Intolerant Kids

August 11, 2022

USDA’s Proposed Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards Would Deliver First Federal Legal Standards for Farm Animal Welfare

August 8, 2022

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The FDA still requires the use of animals in their testing that not only torture and kills animals, but are also unreliable predictors of human response. Tell your representatives to support the FDA Modernization Act of 2021.

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There are now more 1000 elephants across 104 work camps benefiting from the food bank program — with more elephant camps expected to sign up in the future.

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captive, starving elephants

Elephants in Crises

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Watch our short film that throws the curtain back on the mass slaughter of more than 2 million kangaroos a year – and sign our petition to tell Nike to stop the slaughter.

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Kangaroos are not shoes

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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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“Consumer choice informed by conscience is an unstoppable force for good.”

― Wayne Pacelle, The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals

The Business of Animal Welfare

House Restricts Trade in Big Cats for Use As Pets in Homes and Props at Roadside Menageries

Breaking Down the Upcoming Case Against Prop 12 Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Human-Relevant Test Methods Can Improve Drug Development. It’s Time to Use Them.

Breaking News

Prop 12: Pig Industry Objections Are Baseless, Argue Veterinarians and Animal Welfare Advocates in Two Briefs Submitted to U.S. Supreme Court

Center for a Humane Economy: NYC must stop carriage rides until medical evaluations are conducted on the horses

Civil Rights, Nutrition, and Animal Groups Call for an End to Dairy Industry Monopoly in Public Schools That Sickens Millions of Lactose-Intolerant Kids

USDA’s Proposed Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards Would Deliver First Federal Legal Standards for Farm Animal Welfare

see more here

The Center for a Humane Economy Shapes the Way Businesses Treat Animals

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