Lobbying Federal Agencies
Alex Pacheco has engineered and led numerous high profile, high impact national and international campaigns against and sometimes alongside, various federal, state, and local government agencies - for the ultimate purpose of stopping inhumane practices and reducing the suffering of animals.
Federal entities including:
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration . . . (performs painful, fatal drug tests on live animals)
- U.S. Department of Justice . . . (is pressured by industry to pursue numerous animal activists)
- U.S. Department of Defense . . . (kills millions of animals in painful experiments)
- U.S. Department of Transportation . . . (allows and performs painful fatal experiments on animals)
- U.S. Department of the Interior . . . (allows the maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . . . (performs painful fatal experiments on live animals)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture . . . (allows painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals, etc.)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration . . . (allows painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . . . (promotes the maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . . . (sponsors painful fatal tests on millions of animals)
- National Park Service . . . (allows hunting and trapping in National Parks, etc.)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms . . . (performs painful, fatal tests on animals)
- Smithsonian Institution . . . (owns the National Zoo where experiments on animals are performed)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke . . . (performs painful animal tests)
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . . . (authorize painful animal tests)
- National Science Foundation . . . (funds many painful animal experiments)
- National Institutes of Health . . . (performs painful animal experiments)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . . (performed painful animal experiments)
- International Trade Commission . . . (regulates inhumane trapping and killing of wildlife)
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service . . . (charged by Congress with enforcing the AWA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigations . . . (are pressured by corporations to pursue some activists)
- Federal Trade Commission . . . (regulates the businesses responsible for most animal suffering)
- European Union . . . (not a U.S. agency, regulates inhumane practices inflicted on millions of animals)
