A woman in Chile talking into a microphone at an event

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Make your voice count

Your voice is needed on these important issues. Here’s how you can take action — and why it matters.

50 ways to help

Your actions make a difference

Make sure your elected officials know that you are an advocate for animals. When you contact your elected official, you’re putting a face and a name on an issue.

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Pigs look out from an enclosure
Gabriela Penela/We Animals Media
Ban farrowing crates in the UK

It is cruel and unnecessary to force mother pigs to be locked in narrow metal cages.

American horses in pens ready to be transported for slaughter in Mexico

Kathy Milani/Humane World for Animals

American horses awaiting transportation to slaughter
Speak out to end cruel horse slaughter methods

Thousands of American equines are brutally slaughtered every year. Horses deserve a humane end of life.

Image of live horse export in Canada

Canadian Horse Defence Coalition

End the export of live horses for slaughter

Horses are flown by air, crammed into wooden crates without water, food or rest.

Horse suffering from soring on his legs

Humane World for Animals

Pass the PAST Act to end horse abuse

No horse should be made to suffer for a blue ribbon. Urge legislators to strengthen penalties for abuse.

Haiti Street Dogs

Swoan Parker/Humane World for Animals

Help dogs and cats on the streets

Millions of dogs and cats roam the streets worldwide.

Sick puppy at a Michigan Petland store

The HSUS

Petland cruelty exposed

Undercover investigations have unveiled terrible suffering in Petland stores.

Mother dog huddles along side puppies in puppy mill

Kathy Milani/The HSUS

Urge the USDA to protect puppies

Puppies and mother dogs suffer in puppy mills and urgently deserve better conditions.

Two sloths fighting in the presence of customers who purchased an encounter with sloths. One sloth suffered from a wound under his chin.

The HSUS

At Sloth Encounters, an undercover investigator from the Humane Society of the United States documented sloths fighting in the presence of customers who purchased an encounter with sloths. One sloth suffered from a wound under his chin.
Pledge to protect captive wild animals

The misguided demand for interactions with wild animals is fueling an industry that harms wildlife across the U.S. and around the world. Avoid attractions that offer close encounters with wild animals.

Photo by LindaYolanda/iStock.com

This is an important win for farm animals: Prop 12 has been called the world’s strongest farm animal law, and in addition to banning cruel cages in California, it also prohibits the sales of products that come from these abused animals, no matter where the eggs, pork and veal were produced.
Speak up for animals suffering on factory farms

Prevent the suffering of animals on factory farms and protect the world around us.

A puppy looks desperately through a chainlink cage with pleading eyes

Jean Chung/For HSI

Stop the dog and cat meat trade in Indonesia

End the horrifically cruel and dangerous dog and cat meat trades.

A dog is chained up to a tree and looks pleadingly at the camera

Meredith Lee/The HSUS

End organized dogfighting

Dogs forced to fight for human entertainment suffer horrific injuries and sometimes death.

Sad dog in cage in Indiana toxicology lab

The HSUS

End dog testing

40,000 dogs are used in painful and often deadly experiments each year in the United States alone.

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A Humane World is the official blog of Humane World for Animals—a first-hand account of our ongoing efforts to protect animals, as told by our president and CEO, Kitty Block.

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