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“The objective of center for a humane economy (center) is building a humane economy by triggering change within industry and government to benefit animals. The center and its sister organizations succeeded in 2024 in stopping the so-called eats act, which was formulated to undo the most important state laws to protect animals used in agricultural production. Pushed by factory farming special interests, including the chinese-owned smithfield foods, the eats act aims to impose gestation-crate confinement as the industry standard nationwide, even after millions of american voters said they want meat and eggs sold in their states to be sourced from farms that allow the animals to stand up, lie down, and turn around. We also continued our march to persuade the athletic shoe industry to purge its global supply chains of kangaroo skins, ratcheting up pressure on adidas and the remaining shoe-sellers who have been stubbornly using the hides of these iconic marsupials to make uppers for soccer shoes. And we continued to push the u.s. Food and drug administration - and pharmaceutical companies conscripted to seek approval from the agency for new drugs in the marketplace - to begin a wind-down of the era of animal testing and to choose safer, faster, less costly alternative methods of screening new drugs. The year in review: our efforts to drive the moral evolution society's major institutions in a capitalist society, the workings of business have enormous implications for animals. In 2024, the center worked to drive changes in many of the biggest sectors of the economy. Cage-free future *in 2024, we blocked the eats act in congress that was an attempt by actors in government to rig the private production of animals reared for food. The exposing agricultural trade suppression (eats) act was formulated to undo the most important state laws to protect animals used in agriculture, including prop 12 in california and question 3 in massachusetts. Those measures sought to halt the in-state sale of pork and eggs from pigs kept in two-foot-by-seven-foot cages and of laying hens jammed in battery cages. To do this, we rallied democrats and republicans in the house and senate to defend these anti-extreme-confinement laws, and the proponents of eats weren't able to overcome our opposition and their legislation never got to the house or senate floor for consideration. In our efforts, we had the support of thousands of farmers who now shun intensive systems of production and put more extensive systems of production to work. The alliance of animal welfare advocates and more humane-minded farmers is a powerful impediment to the advance of the eats act. It certainly gave us a lift when the u.s. Supreme court, in the prior year and in a close decision, rejected the legal claims by the national pork producers council (nppc) to gut prop 12. By pivoting then to congress, the nppc seemed desperate to find any way to hold onto their factory farming systems. We know we'll have to be ready to defend these state laws in 2025 as some farm-state lawmakers gin up this assault on states' rights and animal welfare. *even though the nppc lost before the high court, the trade group and its allies keep trying to find a winning legal doctrine in the federal courts. In a federal court in massachusetts, we fended off a new legal challenge to question 3, which voters approved nearly a decade ago to halt the sale of eggs, pork, and veal that come from the worst kinds of factory farms. As with the eats act in congress, we'll have to confront their appeals as our political adversaries ply every path to hold onto their extreme animal-housing practices. Our defensive maneuvers in congress and the courts are also clearing the way for the implementation of state farm-animal-welfare policies taking effect in the states. For instance, in january 2025, michigan law will require that all eggs sold in the state come exclusively from cage-free operations. Our goal is to expand cage-free”

“Kangaroos aren't shoes building on our work in 2023 to secure commitments from puma, nike, and new balance to halt their sourcing of kangaroo skins for athletic shoes, we worked with u.k.-based sokito to end its sourcing of kangaroo skin. We also ratcheted up pressure on adidas and two japanese brands - mizuno and asics, which also use kangaroo skins for their soccer shoes. Our friends and partners at their turn conducted multiple protests at adidas flagship stores in new york city, entering the stores and demanding the company halt its financing of kangaroo killing in australia. The campaign truly went global, with protests throughout australia and the united states and also across canada and in germany, where adidas is headquartered. Adidas has defended its commerce by claiming that australia has assured the company that the "management" of kangaroos is humane. But it's an empty defense. The australian government mandates that any orphaned joeys found after the dust settles from the night-time shoots must be killed by blunt force trauma, such as hitting them in the head with a rock or slamming their skulls against a truck fender. The mere acknowledgement of the need for these "humane killing" guidelines with rocks and fenders tells us that australia knows about the mass orphaning problem in the field. There is just no good reason for any use of kangaroo parts any longer. Alternative fabrics already dominate the soccer shoe models of all the major global brands, so there's no argument on function. Back in 2022, the center calculated that the vast majority - 94.6% - of all world cup goals scored came from players wearing shoes from human-made fabrics. Whether you are a weekend soccer player or a world cup star, there's just no need for kangaroo skins. They don't outperform shoes made from human-made, sustainable fabrics. And remember, all other categories of athletic shoes - golf, tennis, running, (american) football, cycling - are kangaroo-leather-free. Animal fighting is the pits to be sure, animal fighting is a business, albeit an illegal one, with billions of dollars in commerce in the form of gambling, the sale of expensive birds and dogs, and all of the economic activity built around raising and training animals for combat. In 2024, we prevailed in a federal appeals court upholding a u.s. District court decision that animal fighting is banned on every inch of u.s. Soil, including in the northern mariana islands. This case turned back a cockfighters' challenge to the 2018 national animal-fighting law arguing the law should not apply to this u.s. Territory. We won earlier cases in other u.s. District courts (and in appellate courts), affirming that the national animal-fighting ban is constitutionally sound as applied to puerto rico and guam. We are working to hit these illegal businesses in the pocket, where it hurts the most. There were a record number of animal fighting busts in the united states in 2024, and that's because of the prominence of our no-tolerance-for-animal-fighting campaign, our on-the-ground investigations, and our work with law enforcement. There has been a series of federal cases against dogfighters, including the apprehension of a former senior pentagon official knee-deep in the blood and guts of this betrayal of the human-animal bond. There has been a slight uptick in federal cases against cockfighting, but local sheriffs have done the spadework here - from florida to texas to california and in dozens of other states. We are reshaping and toughening up our animal-fighting laws, feeding information on these ongoing crimes to authorities, and demanding relentless action. There's never been a riskier moment for scofflaw animal fighters, and we are working to make sure that they understand the acute risks they face. A dramatic step-up in enforcement will be triggered when we persuade congress to enact an even stronger federal statute to eliminate animal fighting. In 2024, we built unprecedented law enfor”

“Keeping wild horses wild we worked with allies to stop the planned roundup and removal of the iconic wild horses at theodore roosevelt national park, with a major assist from north dakota governor doug burgum. The wild horses were part of the "humane economy" of western north dakota. The beautiful horses, with the multi-colored coats and their flowing manes, are a breathtaking sight on the western landscape, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the small gateway towns of north dakota. Protecting and preserving the horses benefits the regional economy, and that's precisely why we saw so many politicians in the state rally to fight the national park service's overreaching plan. But the fight for the theodore roosevelt national park horses is just one manifestation of the government's misreading of the public mood when it comes to protecting wild and free-roaming equines. The bureau of land management (blm) is recklessly and expensively rounding up wild horses and burros across our western public lands at an enormous cost to the animals and to american taxpayers. With burgum now serving as interior secretary, we may find a sympathetic voice to halt this abuse of free-roaming horses and burros and to give a break to taxpayers unwittingly financing a wasteful and inhumane program that's been on autopilot for years. As in north dakota, wild horses are symbols of the west and there is an entire tourism economy built around viewing them. They cannot be viewed if they are rounded up and held in captive holding facilities in the midwest. Ending greyhound racing and horse slaughter for human consumption we are poised to close out a century of greyhound racing and slaughtering horses for human consumption, given the breadth of political support we've built in congress on both these policy reforms. We planned to pass a legislative amendment to the farm bill on these reforms in 2024, but congress deferred action on the legislation. We'll be ready to secure these policies and to close out inhumane businesses not in alignment with american values and now on the back end of a long decline. Saving wolves we blocked congressional efforts by anti-wolf lawmakers to eliminate federal protections for the wild canids across most of their range. Meanwhile, we sued the federal government to restore federal protections for wolves in the northern rockies, where wolves are under assault. The killing is particularly ruthless in wyoming, where it's legal to run down and crush wolves with snowmobiles. It's because of that extreme cruelty that we formulated a national legislative campaign - the snowmobiles aren't weapons (saw) act - to ban using motorized vehicles to assault wolves and coyotes. Wolves are not only native wildlife who deliver ecosystem services of incalculable value in the west, but they are an antidote to the rapidly spreading chronic wasting disease, which is threatening the long-term viability of deer, elk and moose in 34 states and provinces. There is a multi-billion-dollar economy built around protecting wild cervids and wolves, along with mountain lions, who are doing their best to cleanse herds of this always-fatal disease. Understanding the critical role that apex predators play, while also understanding that their lives matter to them, we are also working to stop assaults on mountain lions, bobcats, and other native cats in the west, along with battling to stop the killing of bears for their gallbladders and bile for traditional chinese medicine. Helping cows and dumping the milk mandate we built a coalition of more than 200 organizations demanding that congress end the milk mandate in the national school lunch program. We worked with lawmakers in both parties to introduce legislation in the u.s. Senate and u.s. House of representatives to give kids more choice for nutritious beverages in the schools, to stop the enormous waste of cow's milk, and to provide more access for plant-based milk companies to reach young people. In ma”