What Campaigns Is Humane World for Animals Running, Such as Against Fur Fashion and Pesticide Dog Tests?

Humane World for Animals is running public-facing campaigns against fur in fashion and against pesticide testing on dogs, and both rely on the same basic action: adding your name to a petition or advocacy appeal aimed at companies and regulators. The fur campaign targets the fashion industry as Paris Fashion Week returns, while the pesticide campaign targets the 90-day dog test in which beagles are forced to ingest pesticides. You can act on either through the organization's "Sign Now" and "Act Now" calls on its site.

The anti-fur fashion campaign

The site frames fur as a supply-chain problem, not just a consumer choice. Its message: tens of millions of animals suffer and die each year to supply fur to the fashion industry, and as Paris Fashion Week returns, it is time to hold fashion companies accountable.

• Target: fashion companies that use or supply fur.
• Ask: add your name to say no to cruel fashion.
• Timing hook: the campaign is pegged to Paris Fashion Week, using the industry's highest-visibility moment to press brands.
• Goal: shift responsibility onto companies rather than leaving it with individual shoppers.

If you want to participate, the entry point is the "Sign Now" petition linked from the campaign message. Signing adds your name to the public pressure the organization directs at fashion brands.

The campaign against pesticide tests on dogs

This campaign focuses on a specific laboratory procedure: during the 90-day dog test, beagles are forced to ingest pesticides, an experiment the organization says can cause them physical harm and psychological distress.

• Target: the testing system and the regulators or companies that require or accept it.
• Ask: "Act Now" — a direct advocacy action against cruel pesticide tests.
• Goal: end the use of dogs in pesticide safety testing.

The action here is an advocacy appeal rather than a consumer boycott, so the expected result is pressure on the institutions that mandate or accept the test.

How the two campaigns compare

Both campaigns share a theory of change: public signatures and advocacy appeals create accountability that individual lifestyle choices cannot. The site's broader involvement menu — advocate, volunteer, learn, donate — sits around these campaigns, but the fur and pesticide pushes are the two concrete, time-bound asks described on the homepage.

What to expect if you take part

Signing or acting through these campaigns puts your name behind the organization's public messaging to companies and regulators. The site does not describe any follow-up commitment, membership, or cost tied to these actions. For related context, the organization also reports on ending the dog and cat meat trade worldwide, including its final large-scale dog meat farm rescue in South Korea ahead of the dog meat farming ban taking full effect in early 2027, and on farmed animal welfare.