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Alex Pacheco (animal rights)
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Alex Pacheco is an American animal rights activist, a co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
In 1982, shortly after founding PETA, and while still a student at George Washington University, Pacheco took a summer job as a volunteer at the Institute for Biological Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Dr. Edward Taub was conducting research into nerve regeneration, and had cut the sensory nerves in monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, and legs, then withheld food or subjected them to electric shocks to see whether the stimulation would force the monkeys back to some level of motor functioning.[1] (See Silver Spring monkeys).
Pacheco reported violations of animal cruelty laws, and police raided the lab and seized the monkeys. The resulting legal cases, which eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, generated large amounts of publicity. The United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology held hearings which led to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act. In 1986, newly mandated changes in United States Public Health Service policy and guidelines for animals used in research included a requirement that each institution seeking federal funding have an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee whose job it is to oversee the way laboratory animals within that institution are cared for.
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- "Roots of Concern with Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Ethics" by Lisa Sideris, Charles McCarthy, and David H. Smith, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, ILAR Journal V40(1) 1999
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