Reports

The knowledge and skills of the Center for a Humane Economy's team of investigators, scientists, veterinarians, policy and international experts make our reports a must-read.

Animal Cruelty Enforcement

FACT SHEET: Enhancing Enforcement of Federal Anti-Cruelty Laws

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FACT SHEET: The Correlation Between Animal Abuse and Socially Dangerous Human Behavior

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Animal Fighting is the Pits ​

REPORT: The Texoma Cockfighting Corridor

An investigative report on the widespread illegal conduct and associated crimes in the criminal network spanning the remote reaches between Tulsa and Dallas.

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REPORT: Cockfighting: Playing Chicken and Gambling with Potentially Pandemic Avian Influenza and Virulent Newcastle Disease

An investigative report on how cockfighting is contributing to a potentially pandemic Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease.

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REPORT: Commonwealth Cruelty in Kentucky

An investigative report on Kentucky's Global Trafficking of Fighting Animals

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REPORT: Cockfighting in Arkansas

An investigative report on the history and current state of illegal cockfighting in Arkansas.

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REPORT: The North Carolina Cockfighting Industry

An investigative report on North Carolina's involvement in the cockfighting industry.

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FACT SHEET: Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking (FIGHT) Act Combats Crime and Contagion

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REPORT: Cockfighting in Oklahoma

An investigative report on Oklahoma cockfighting traffickers and the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission.

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FACT SHEET: Animal Fighting and the U.S. Territories

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REPORT: Hawaii: the Hub for Pacific Rim Cockfighting Trade

An investigative report of Guam Shipping Records Revealing More Shippers from Hawaii to Guam Than Any Other State

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Banning Greyhound Racing

FACT SHEET: The Kangaroo Protection Act

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Cage-free Future

REPORT: Rebranded EATS Act Eliminates Nation’s Most Important Farm Animal Welfare Laws

A scientific report on how the measure would clear the path for China to expand its dominance in pork production in the American homeland.

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FACT SHEET: Summary of Legal Casework to Overturn Consequential State Farm Animal Welfare Laws

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FACT SHEET: Save Our Bacon Act: An Assault on American Values

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Dunking the Milk Mandate

BRIEF: Looking at Claims Made about Soy and Other Plant Milks

A brief on the health benefits of human consumption of soy, and four of the most common myths surrounding soy consumption and what science has to say about them.

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BRIEF: Let’s Talk Soy: Myths and Facts

A brief looking at the truth behind some fraudulent soy claims.

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BRIEF: The Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet

A PowerPoint document on how changing to plant-based diets reduce chronic diseases, increase lifespan & decrease climate change.

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Kangaroos Are Not Shoes

FACT SHEET: The Kangaroo Protection Act

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Misc.

REPORT: Big Cats as Nature’s Check Against Disease

A report on the theoretical, empirical, and experimental evidence supporting predator cleansing of CWD in deer and elk herds by mountain lions and wolves.

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Modernize Testing

FACT SHEET: COMPACT Act — Companion Animal Protection Against Cruel Testing Act

FACT SHEET: The FDA Modernization Act 3.0

Protecting Bears

FACT SHEET: Ending the Unsporting, Unsafe, and Reckless Practice of Bear Baiting on Federal Lands

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FACT SHEET: Protect Our Bears from the Bear Bile Trade

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Protecting America's Horses

REPORT: Horse Slaughter in North America: U.S. Live Exports Fade as Foreign Demand Abates

An Investigative report on horses and other equines sent to slaughter in Canada and Mexico.

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FACT SHEET: Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act

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Rethink Mink

REPORT: Mink Farming and SARS-CoV-2

A report examining the science and the scale of problems associated with mink farns.

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FACT SHEET: The MINKS Are Superspreaders Act

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FACT SHEET: Mink Fur Farming is in Decline

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Saving Wolves

FACT SHEET: The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons (SAW) Act

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Soaring, Not Suffering

REPORT: Lead Ammunition Imperils Wildlife and Hunting Families

How the use of alternative forms of ammunition will remediate the widespread lead poisoning problem.

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FACT SHEET: Lead Ammunition: Deadly and Dangerous for Wildlife and Hunting

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FACT SHEET: Fish and Wildlife Service Hatches Unworkable, Inhumane, Wasteful Plan to Slaughter Barred Owls

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