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Alexander Fernando Pacheco (born August 1958) is an American animal rights activist. He is founder of (600 Million Stray Dogs Need You ), co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and a member of the advisory board of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.〔 *("Board of Advisors, Alex Pacheco" ), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. *Also see , accessed February 16, 2008.〕 Pacheco first crewed with Captain Paul Watson in 1979 on the ship ''Sea Shepherd'' across the Atlantic Ocean, during a campaign of opposition to the ''Sierra'', a Portuguese pirate whale-killing ship. Both ''The Sea Shepherd'' and the ''Sierra'' were sunk after being seized by the Portuguese authorities. Pacheco came to wider public attention in 1981 for his role, along with Ingrid Newkirk, in what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a campaign to release 17 crab-eating macaques who were undergoing experiments in the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. Oliver Stone writes that the political campaign to save the monkeys gave birth to the animal rights movement in the United States.〔Stone, Oliver. Foreword in Guillermo, Kathy Snow. ''Monkey Business: The Disturbing Case That Launched the Animal Rights Movement''. National Press Books, 1993.〕 ==Early life and education== Pacheco was born in Joliet, Illinois, but moved to Mexico with his family when he was very young, where he and his two siblings were raised near the ocean by his Mexican father, a physician, and his mother, an American nurse. Kathy Snow Guillermo writes in ''Monkey Business'' (1993) that Pacheco's early life was filled with animals; bats lived in the rubber trees in his front yard, snakes slept behind nearby rocks, and fishermen regularly dragged dolphins out of the water onto the beach. Instead of animals being killed for food in slaughterhouses, pigs, oxen, chickens, and turkeys were frequently killed in front of him.〔Guillermo 1993, pp. 30-33.〕 The family left Mexico when Pacheco was in junior high, and moved between Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. His interest in animals continued. He bought turtles and birds from pet stores, and a baby crab-eating macaque, whom he called Chi Chi and who would perch on his shoulder as he walked around the house.〔 He attended Catholic university in Ohio, intending to enter the priesthood, but while in Canada in his first year at university, he visited a friend who worked at a meat-packing plant. Guillermo writes that he was shocked by the sight of two men throwing a newborn calf, cut from the uterus of its slaughtered mother, into a dumpster. Later in the week, a friend gave him a copy of Peter Singer's ''Animal Liberation'', and he returned to Ohio as a vegetarian. His heart was no longer in becoming a priest, and he decided to attend Ohio University in Athens, Ohio instead to devote himself to helping what he called "other-than-human beings."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Pacheco (activist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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