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I remember that an ad appeared in some newsletter,
saying that a cleaner is wanted for some laboratory.
And I thought that maybe this way I could
sneak a camera inside and take some pictures
and show people what is going on in there, inside these cages.
Because they don't tell you what is going on in there.
I approach the actual cages and I see the mice there,
packed in there, looking quite frightened.
I felt really sorry for them.
There was nothing I could do, besides taking pictures.
I couldn't get them out.
I remember one incident that I caught on film.
So the anesthetic that they injected the rat with
- I don't know - apparently it wasn't working properly,
And I saw how the rat is moving,
I mean it was clear to see that it wasn't anesthetized.
And it's trying to get up, to get away from the needle,
and it's really painful for her when they're sewing her up.
And the researcher himself - I don't know-
when he's pushing the needle in and stitching,
he really didn't care. He didn't, like, add anesthetic.
He just kept on sewing it up,
and the rat is trying to get away from the needle.
It's visible that it is in pain.
And the researcher really doesn't care.
That's the general feeling I have from all the filming:
That I saw that the researchers there treat all the animals there
as if they were lifeless objects, as if they were...
As if they were allowed to: "Take rats. They're worthless..."
"You can play with them..."
I remember that when I was taking all those pictures
I thought, like: "Who gave you permission?!"
And I said, like, if these photos do something, change something,
somebody sees it, and people would understand
that this is about creatures that can feel and suffer,
maybe people would understand
that this is about something that is wrong.
And that it has to be stopped.