Alex Pacheco (activist)

Alexander Fernando Pacheco is an American animal rights activist. He is founder of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, cofounder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and a member of the advisory board of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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 that Pachecos 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.

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