Through my eyes

“They
came and pulled me out of my cage. I was firmly held and something
long and thin was inserted into my mouth. I did not like that. I got
angry when they put it deeper down my throat. It was not food. I felt
it slipping down inside me. I was suffocating. I understood that it
was not normal. Every day, for months, it started again. They took me
out of my cage and forcefully inserted this tube in the back of my
throat where they leaked something. What they put in my belly started
to make me feel sick. After that, I did not always want to eat what
was brought to me. When I did eat, I sometimes threw up everything.
After several months, I was out of my cage one last time. They held
me firmly and shaved my leg. I then felt something sharp sink into
it. A feeling of cold suddenly swept over me when a liquid was
spilled into my veins. I suddenly felt very tired. I remembered the
smell of my mother. I would have liked to have been with her again.”

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“I
screamed in panic when they brutally strapped me to a restraining
device, but no one came to help me. My head was firmly maintained. A
device was implanted into my skull, which was hurting me so much, it
was the pulled up and fixed on a bar above me. I could not move. On a
big screen in front of me, sets of patterns began to appear. For
months I endured this trauma, I learned that when this pattern was
repeated, I had to quickly press a button in front of me. I was then
rewarded with a little fruit juice delivered drop by drop into my
mouth. I wanted this juice. I had not had any liquid for several
hours and I was very, very thirsty. After several hours, I was
released from this device and put back into a cage. I did not fight
this time. I wanted to sleep. I
wanted to forget.”

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“I
curled up in the cage when a hand tried to catch me. Stronger than
me, she manages to grab me. I was then locked in a box from where
only my head was sticking out. I could not move. I looked around and
saw rows of my companions locked up in the same way. Then a man
walked towards me. I began to breathe faster. I struggled to escape,
without success. The man lifted one of my eyelids and instilled
something in my eye. Everything has become vague. The substance
burned as my vision began to disappear. I saw almost nothing and the
burning sensation persisted.

I
wanted that to stop. I wanted to remove this stuff but I could not.
It was so bad. I was struggling, I could not scratch my eye. Finally,
the man came back. After examining my eye, he put me back in my
empty, cold cage. I was alone, scared, and in pain. I hoped he would
not come back.”

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One
Voice is the French representative of ECEAE, the European Coalition
to End Animal Experimentation.