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Are the lights on in that residence?

No, the residence is behind that.

There's more?

Oh, fuck.

Kristo...

Is this the one that's squealing? - I don't know.

What are you doing? - I'm taking it out or it'll die.

Though that might be for the best. - It's best if it dies now,

not in six months after going through all these phases.

Let's get out of here.

I don't want to watch this.

Seriously, I can't do this.

A sow that had recently given birth

tried to lie down,

crushing two or three of her piglets to death.

It's a relatively common thing to happen.

At this point I no longer wanted to be the person who leaves you to die.

All I ever wanted was to love animals.

JUST ANIMALS

Little kitty!

As a child, animals were everything to me.

And I wasn't aware I was eating them.

This is my older sister Mai.

She was my biggest idol.

She taught me how to play games and to do other things.

Go, Saila! Watch out for the tree! Yay!

Mum, what animal eats sausages?

Mai animal does.

I'm not an animal. - Sure you are.

I'm not!

Come take a look, Saila!

What's that...? Wow!

Is it a dragon guarding a castle?

Oh, you're going your own way.

Then there was...

...the friendship book where I wrote

I'd become a police officer when I grew up.

I wrote ''Helper, but not of religious sort.''

I hope grandma didn't see that.

Saila! You have no photo.

Guess you weren't in school yet.

Favourite food: sausage soup.

''Things I hate: robbers, war and rust.''

Rust!

My biggest nemesis.

''Things I like: Disney, comics, animals, monkeys.''

I was five when Mai went nuts about changing the world.

During summer holiday, dad took her to the Greenpeace office each day.

I figured all kids imagined they have to save the whole world.

I took direct action

because I want to stand up to the things that I find important.

I think it would be plain madness not to act.

Mai got deeper and deeper into activism.

I just wanted to be a normal, party-loving teen.

When the activists' videos showed me how farm animals are treated, I was shocked.

I decided to take part in the secret filming trips.

My whole circle of friends changed.

All those around me believed in something

and were willing to do insane things for the cause.

It felt revolutionary.

None of the truths I had previously learned mattered anymore.

I haven't been able to leave it behind.

I must've tried dozens of times

to just forget about it all and ignore those issues.

I can't do it, but at the same time

I'm not sure if an activist who runs around filming at night

and whatever...

Was it really me? Or was I just copying you?

Can you put the lights back on?

We had a deficit of 2,000 euros on our account.

We couldn't afford to print a new issue for the magazine let alone mail it.

After the photos were published,

Justice for Animals managed to raise 20,000 euros

in just a few days.

I've been involved with this organisation since 1996,

and these two campaigns, along with others like them,

have lifted the animal rights movement to a whole new level.

It's been a lot of hard work.

People have filmed hundreds of farms.

Out of all these people, two have been brave enough

to have gone public.

Karry and Saila have been prosecuted

for revealing the true nature of pig farming in Finland.

You said you were afraid of the consequences.

Were you afraid of entering the farms? - Sure.

Could you tell us a bit about it?

When you entered a pig farm for the fist time,

how did that make you feel?

What was it like?

When filming it, I had to block my thoughts

so it all came to me only after weeks.

I started realising that they were all real, individual animals

and we just left them there.

I've had dreams where the animals ask me why I left

and shut the door behind them.

Play that beautiful music again, it's so soothing.

Blast it at full volume.

It's only a live TV broadcast...

Welcome, activists Saila Kivelä and Karry Hedberg.

12 pig farmers are demanding 180,000 euros as compensations from you.

The prosecution claims you're guilty of defamation,

criminal trespassing and the spreading of swine erysipelas.

Saila could be facing probation and Karry an actual prison sentence,

so why did you want to come out to the public?

I want to speak directly about these issues,

and I want to live in a society where it is possible to do so.

That's admirable. Thank you, Karry and Saila.

I hope you don't end up in prison.

Let's look at some of the footage you've shot.

It's not for the faint of heart,

so you might want to cover your eyes for the next 40 seconds.

Minister Anttila, it's a huge problem

if we have a law that doesn't allow pigs to live a good life.

We're tightening up the norms.

Two years ago you said you'd consider it, but nothing happened.

We are working on the new animal welfare legislation...

We were promised changes to the animal welfare legislation.

I had to start following what would happen.

Would you allow us to film there?

None of the people from the industry were found criminally liable.

Do you think it's right to bring possibly stolen animals

to a public space?

Mind if I ask you about pigs? - Not now.

After the meeting?

How about now?

I told you I'm not giving any comments

so people won't jump into conclusions before next week's trial.

Her family farm was exposed in 2007, and it had all the same problems.

The ministry says you've hindered the new law.

We'll talk after the trial.

This isn't about the trial but the new animal welfare legislation.

The ministry says you stopped the process.

Eventually the ministry took action.

They granted nearly 400,000 euros for fixing the tainted image of pork.

The pig farmers will probably comment on my shoes...

...thinking they're made of leather.

Bye, dear.

Bye.

Keep a clear head, both of you. - Yeah, sure.

Bye. - Good luck.

I don't think I can keep my thoughts very clear.

Sure you can. - Okay, bye then.

Bye.

Stay safe.

Are those the farmers back there.

Most likely. I don't know what they look like,

but I think so.

Now that you've visited various pig farms,

what did you think of the conditions at my farm?

Depends on the point of reference.

I think the whole basis here is wrong. Why do we...

Just answer whether the conditions at my farm especially...

I think these animals are not living a good life by any means.

Pigs are extremely intelligent.

According to some studies, as intelligent as a 3-year-old child.

So you think the pigs suffer in my care?

Yes.

You think I'm an animal abuser?

Animals are suffering in the industrial production we have today,

and I think we should question the need for such production.

How do you know the livestock density at my farm?

If you keep the animals so that they can't even turn around...

Shouldn't you know what... - The livestock density at your farm is?

No, I shouldn't.

Our case is taken to the Court of Appeal and will take years.

This all feels like such insignificant tinkering.

It's so far removed from the question of what happens to all those animals.

Nobody talks about that.

Grandma is really worried.

She hopes I wouldn't do anything like this.

That I would focus on...

...the real matters.

Whatever those might be.

Studying and a career, I suppose.

But I can't imagine a life without these things.

You shouldn't enter other people's property.

It's a crime. I read it in the papers.

It's actually not.

Well, that's what it said in the papers anyway.

Violence of domestic peace is, but that's not the case here.

Will you pour Matti some coffee, Saila?

Sure. - And for Ritva, too.

Saila!

Saila!

Look. - We have an egg!

An egg! - What a lovely egg.

Look, dad. - Yeah.

It's a bit dirty.

I remember when I was around six

and we were sitting at the dinner table.

I had this sausage in front of me.

I didn't quite get what it was.

I asked dad how it was possible it came from an animal,

how was that allowed?

Dad told me animals aren't capable

of the same things we are

and that they can't talk, so it's okay.

I kept staring at my sister Tuuli at the table.

She has a rare learning disability,

and I was so confused because Tuuli couldn't do those things either.

Of course I'm nervous.

But at the same time I feel kind of indifferent.

I'd rather go to jail than pay massive compensations.

If I have to pay massive compensations, I'll move abroad.

In the case of Prosecutor versus Saila Kivelä and Karry Hedberg,

the court finds Hedberg guilty of one count of criminal trespassing,

sentencing him to 20 days of probation.

In the case of the defamation charges, the court finds

that the filming was an appropriate, albeit acrimonious, form of criticism.

The accused Kivelä is found not guilty.

What the heck?

Oh, no. I'm so embarrassed.

''Former pig farmer Jorma Tuominen is one of those

whose farms Saila Kivelä and Karry Hedberg filmed

for the organisation Justice for Animals in 2009.''

What the hell? That's not true.

''The court didn't find anyone guilty, says Tuominen.''

''The activists claimed I treated my pigs poorly,

but I don't feel guilty.''

''The way I see it, it was never proved

that there were paralysed pigs at my farm.''

Jorma Tuominen. - Hi, this is Saila Kivelä.

Am I calling at a bad moment?

Not at all. - Okay. I suppose you remember who I am.

I do. This is a big surprise.

Yeah, so I thought I'd call you,

as the trial is now over

as far as I know.

That's right. - So...

So would it be possible for us to meet?

You can watch, doesn't matter anymore.

Three, zero...

I've forgotten it.

Had to install this after your visit.

So...

I've set a minefield for you people.

Right.

See that white thing up there?

It's a motion sensor.

And this box here sends alerts to my phone.

When did you install these? - After your visit.

How long did you continue pig farming after that?

18 months at most. - Okay.

I was so annoyed by the stunt you pulled that I installed these.

I was sure you'd come back.

Because of the trial. I was certain of it.

The smell is still the same.

Yeah, but you got used to it as the years went by.

I did enjoy that work.

I liked taking care of the animals.

You must think I'm just a lousy animal abuser,

but everyone needs to eat.

I do eat as well. - Sure.

But we can't all become vegetarians.

That's for sure.

That's just how it is.

I don't feel like I've lost even if you were right.

But that's just my opinion.

This is not the way to end meat production.

What was the reason behind that?

The big realisation I had

when I first faced the pig farmers during the trial

was that you should never make such accusations

or release the names.

Our intention isn't so single out anyone

and make them carry the blame.

What we criticise is that the animals live in small enclosures for six months

until they are killed.

That is not a good life,

and the reason they're killed isn't good either.

I'm sure you wouldn't want to have false allegations thrown at you either.

I'm sure that's true.

One farmer even committed suicide after the last attack.

It's no small matter to publicly claim

that people are mistreating their animals.

The scandal only affected the farmers.

It's grotesque how the meat industry, politicians and officials blame them

and do nothing themselves.

Who's responsible for this?

Come on. - Yeah

You weren't a so-called normal child.

You had that WWF poster on your wall that said:

''You can't save the whole world, but you can save a small piece of it.''

You were like ''What bullshit is this?''

''Why can't I save the whole world?'' - Putting me down!

So it was quite special growing up next to someone

who thought so much of herself or what she was capable of.

It's really cool in a way,

but at some point you kind of lose touch with reality.

So when I plunged headfirst into the activist world,

I suddenly felt like I was left alone.

I expected that to be the moment

we would start doing things together.

I was pregnant back then.

Yeah...

We didn't really have any mutual projects.

Yeah, but that's the thing.

That... That I had always thought...

I'm always the one

who wants to do things together.

And you probably never felt the same way.

A reporter wants to come along...

...to follow us as we film.

That won't be a problem since we're planning a campaign anyway.

I think it's best to have one of us there openly.

The more open and honest we can be, the better the story.

Maybe one of us could be there openly.

Do we have that person?

I spoke to my lawyer.

He said I definitely shouldn't go unless I want a suspended sentence.

He said it would look like I was taking the piss out of the judicial system

if I'm openly doing this on television again.

Kristo.

What the fuck?

What the fuck are we doing?

They're dead.

They couldn't...

That's how a mother protects her babies in a place like this.

Next one.

Every single one of those animals we saw

is going to get killed.

It there's nothing else I can do but open the door,

film what's happening and leave,

I don't know what I should do.

I always say that the worst thing about this

is that you go in, take a few photos and get the fuck out, but we did more.

That's precisely all we did! - No.

We have the material and we'll give it to the TV channel next Thursday.

It just feels so distant from the reality where it takes place

and how it just keeps on happening even as we speak.

What we should do is to constantly look for

the most effective way to put an end to this shit.

It's just so fucking horrible.

How many years have we been doing this?

Seven?

I sometimes feel like I'm running amok.

Driving straight into a brick wall with nobody at the wheel.

I don't want to do this anymore.

You don't?

Your right to study is valid until July 2016.

It includes the bachelor's and master's degree.

Until July 2016? - That's right.

If you know you won't be completing any studies next semester,

you should enrol as absent.

How many credits do I have now?

61.

This is just a follow-up system we use to support the students...

How the fuck could I be fulltime interested in this?

This is UNI. Animals exist only on peoples plates.

We release these photos year after year, and people are like

''Hmm, that seems wrong.''

I wanted to show you a video but the committee wouldn't allow it,

so I'm showing you a few photos.

The executives called these the bad apples of the industry

until it was revealed that their own fur farms were among those filmed.

The videos show the animals killing and even eating each other.

Nobody cares what's happening.

Nobody sees it as our responsibility

to care about how we treat those weaker than us.

More radical politics!

Animal rights!

I'm Mai Kivelä, 32.

That's both my age and candidate number.

I gave this so much of myself and my time.

I took huge risks.

I'm so sick of wading through those fucking shit-filled pigsties.

I just wanna... GET OUT FROM THE SHIT, BLOOD AND DEATH!!

I constantly feel that I just don't get something.

Something that's totally glorious to everyone else.

Maybe we can deside that it's just fine. If we are not gonna change it.

Cages = FINE. 30.000 birds ina a farm = FINE! Taking babes from their mom = OK!!!

They build it too fucked up!!

Kristo kept filming, and his new footage showed

that the reality is worse than my nightmares.

Cows and bulls are stunned in a so-called stunning pen.

When done successfully,

the animal immediately collapses to the ground.

However, this doesn't always happen.

This footage was shot at the Paimio slaughterhouse.

What kind of activist are you if you can't take action?

And if I'm not an activist, what am I?

Kristo is always like...

I feel like he doesn't let me quit.

It's wonderful, but at the same time I feel like he doesn't...

...realise that I might not...

...be able to continue all that.

He keeps bringing me new footage,

and each time I see him he has more and more horrible things to show me.

I want to be a part of it,

but at the same time

I feel that I can't...

...take it anymore.

And I...

When he showed me this horrifying footage of a broiler chicken

and I told him I can't watch it,

he told me not to cry over it since it's already dead.

I felt like my head was about to explode.

I should simply keep in mind that all those animals in the footage,

all those faces and eyes that are staring at me, are already dead.

And that would enable me to do it. If I simply didn't...

...care anymore.

I turned the camera towards Kristo and Mai.

It was easier to observe them than the animals.

Did you understand why I felt like that?

Why I couldn't go on? - Yeah.

Of course I did, but...

Don't you ever feel that way?

I do.

Just not as strongly as you did.

Do you feel like you've had to give up something important?

Since you've been doing this for so long.

Many people struggle with the realisation

that their own life or the things they do have no meaning.

I don't have to do it, and I think it's a big privilege.

Has it made your relationship with Henna more difficult?

Your daughter.

No.

I'm angry at them because they're able to do it.

I want to blame them for not being able to do it myself...

...or for being so lost with all this.

I'm also worried about the path that Mai has chosen.

Do you feel like you have to appear in this film?

As a siblingly obligation? - Yeah.

Roll sound.

Camera? - Camera is rolling.

Your first election campaign...

I wasn't really involved in it.

After the elections in 2015,

I worked at an animal welfare organisation for four years.

The new government didn't mention animal welfare in their programme at all.

We launched an appeal

for which we got over 100,000 names.

We also did some lobbying.

We met with various politicians

and wrote a book called New Animal Welfare Act

which we then sent to every MP.

5,5 million people live in Finland.

Over 85 million terrestrial animals are killed each year by the animal industry.

How does Mai still believe she can change the system?

I'm so nervous. - Oh. Why?

I'm scared that you'll get elected

and have to make some stupid decisions.

When you said you wanted to stand as an MP, my first thought was

''Why would you want to give up your activist spirit?''

Okay, it's very idealistic,

but it's also very empowering.

I already experienced that

when I was an activist at Greenpeace

and then started working there as an employee.

Suddenly I was so busy with the office work

that I couldn't take part in the activism and international projects.

For the longest time I wondered

whether getting elected would make me less happy personally?

I mean it's easy to imagine...

...that I would be happier if I just worked in an organisation.

I bet it's different if your old activist work mates

get replaced with some right-wing nuts.

But how much influence would you really have there?

I think the animal welfare legislation is a perfect example of it.

Here we have a system where the fate of millions of animals

is determined by a single law.

All the work the various organisations have done

could be handled with a single vote.

I would go with the dark one. The red one might be too wild.

It's not too boring. It goes well with your hair.

Okay.

If you get elected, you have to be presentable all the time.

Yeah, it's crazy.

You have to look, I don't know...

Smarter. - Yeah.

And I have to start thinking about the way I dress.

Lots of excitement in the air,

but it only makes this broadcast more interesting.

Let's start with the advance votes,

visible at the bottom of the screen.

2617 advance votes. - What?

For me? - Yes.

I got elected!

I won!

We'll say it's one of the Kiveläs.

I feel like someone was staring at me.

People mistake us for each other all the time.

It feels great that the policies I pursue,

ambitious environmental politics and advancing equality,

but also animal rights, have been so widely supported.

Kristo Muurimaa.

Yes.

Yes, we filed a request for police investigation.

Kristo and his colleague Juho

started challenging major animal product retailers

and push the footage from Finland to international media.

When it comes to fur farming,

the most interest seems to come from international...

...dare I say tabloid magazines.

They express shock at how things are in Finland,

Our aim is to get it shown on TV

how animals are treated in Finland

so that it makes the headlines the next morning.

That way we can challenge the politicians.

With their footage they want to end the demand for Finnish cage eggs and fur.

When I read that police dogs had chased two men who had broken into a henhouse,

I realised that Kristo finally got busted.

The case of Prosecutor versus Muurimaa and Kerola begins...

Last night brought back bad memories.

I don't care whether I spend the night in that budget hotel

or in jail.

We'll see which one we end up in.

Mai's party gets into the government.

No hitting. You have to be gentle.

She was busy with the negotiations, so I helped with the kids.

My morning started at 5.50 when my child woke up.

First I'll answer some messages,

then I'll eat ice cream.

You'd think they have an interpreter if they don't speak Finnish, but...

They sell vegan soft ice around the corner.

So this is what's most important now. - Sorry, this can't wait.

The last time I ate vegan soft ice was at an organic fair in the 90s...

No, even that was in Sweden.

It's clear we're going to win this battle.

Even if we lost this trial.

This is the big picture now.

It was unbelievable that the law we had waited for years was in Mai's hands.

The animal welfare act is handled in the environmental work group,

not the agricultural,

which is just unbelievable.

Did Mai tell you how she got it transferred there?

In her first speech she said the law has nothing to do with agriculture.

''It concerns all animals, cats and dogs too!''

The agricultural work group must be pissed.

They are. - Their only reason for being there is now gone.

They still have their say, but my expectations are way higher now.

The negotiations have now begun.

Every day is booked from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

and we'll be sitting here in the House of the Estates.

Wish me luck!

Out of my way!

Oh, no!

Maybe it has had some kind of effect on me...

...that I had to take so much responsibility when I was a child.

But it was clear that Tuuli's learning disability

was something that wasn't present in other families.

You know, with Tuuli being bullied in school and everything.

It all just felt so wrong.

Yeah, it was awful.

I think the new animal welfare law turned out really bad

when it comes to the crucial things.

Or, well...

This must be the most mentally exhausting thing I've ever done.

We were right there, deciding on these things,

so it feels like it was so close...

But still I couldn't achieve the things I wanted so much.

It's just so difficult to deal with that.

Nothing will ever fucking change.

We didn't discuss animal rights there.

It's all about compromises. ''Okay, you want to ban gestation cages.''

''Could we somehow combine that with the producers' interests?''

''How much are we willing to pay for the ban

and what would the transition period be?''

But there's no room for discussion about animal rights.

I didn't expect the new law to save all animals, but...

I thought it would finally turn out better with a left and green government.

But we've lost that battle now.

It really gets to me when I think about you and Mai.

I've been looking after Mai's kids as she hasn't had one second for them.

And this is what we finally get.

People always ask me...

...how I can do this kind of work?

I see so much suffering when visiting the pig and fur farms.

The work is mentally very draining and hard,

but I think that the work Mai does is so much harder.

We've tried everything.

Yet it feels like...

...any real change that we could achieve...

The society could set

even the slightest boundaries to what is considered acceptable.

But no one responds.

A couple of weeks ago I was in Brussels in the European Parliament

speaking in a publication event of a report on the fur industry.

It went pretty well,

but I'd much rather be in the shitty pigsties than the European Parliament.

At least those animals are honest pigs

rather than...

Yeah.

You shouldn't do it like this, but it turned out nice.

Do you still dream of doing a big ''stop the press'' kind of campaign?

That's the only dream I have with this work.

These trousers are so tight.

There was some guy at the farm when we drove past it.

What did he look like? - I only saw a car with an open door

What kind of car?

A small passenger car. Or middle-sized, maybe a Passat.

Colour? - Grey. Silvery.

So they're not doing well.

This whole world just seems so strange to me.

Suddenly you're in like this castle,

debating whether animals should be put in small cages or not.

Is Finland the only country in the world where an agrarian party

wants to kill animals for fur until the end of the world?

Why is this so hard in here in particular?

Netherlands was a big fur producer, too, but they found Covid from 50 farms

which makes shutting down the farms quite a bit faster.

Right, when it's a threat to humans.

They left you all alone?

It's all right.

Holy shit.

We have a dead one here.

When Mai was elected,

she suddenly wasn't in the opposition with us.

She switched camps.

In a way, she suddenly wasn't on our side anymore.

She has to attend the voting

and press the ''Yes, I accept the new animal welfare act'' button.

I don't know what to think...

You know, it kind of hurt me

when you claimed that... How did you put it?

That I'm somehow opposing you?

I view the social movement for improving animal rights

as a continuum.

Some of us work in politics,

some work in organisations or take direct action,

while others try to influence consumers.

So the idea of me being on the opposite side...

I understand it if you're trying to oppose the system,

and then I kind of represent that same system...

But it feels unfair that I should represent the whole system

that you are opposing.

Yeah...

I heard two gunshots.

What happened?

Yellow, yellow. I see two cameras over there.

Copy that. I'll withdraw.

Our cars can be seen through the forest from a hundred metres away.

The options are to stop trying...

...or to place your actions in a historical context.

Everything we achieve makes things easier for those

who take action after us.

I feel like there's my reality where the question of animals

has caused a great deal of sorrow.

Then there's the other reality where the whole issue doesn't exist.

I wish those two realities could meet.

Animals and the violence they're subjected to are real.

We simply have to do something.

It's a candid camera show, right? - Yeah.

Each customer intervenes in it.

This is what I think about

when I feel like I've lost faith in everything.

It proves to you that people care? - Yeah.

It inspires empathy when the situation is close at hand.

It's crazy how this decade-old funny video

feels like a really important animal welfare act.

What does it mean when people say they love animals?

For me, it means taking action and facing the animals

because they are held in captivity as I speak.

But what's my way of doing things?

There are very few people

who are able to do work where you constantly face great suffering.

I feel like our way of doing things was...

We never let it show how horrible all of it really is.

It messed me up quite a bit.

I wasn't able to deal with it alone.

It was simply too much.

I wish it was too much for me as well.

That I hadn't become so numb.

So what happened?

They are banning cages in all of EU,

and the same criteria apply to imported goods.

It concerns imports, too? - Yeah!

Imagine it!

It doesn't concern fur farming, but...

Imagine if caging animals is banned in all EU countries.

How could fur farming continue either?

Since all the practices on how animals are treated

have been formed without any discussion,

it feels like this is the first time ever...

...that we can actually make any ethical choices regarding

I'm so relieved.

This doesn't change everything

but I've been really anxious, so with news like this

I feel like I can finally breathe again.

You know, a feeling of huge relief.

But I don't want to celebrate yet, before it's actually done.

Many will want to pull back from this.

So it's not over yet.

If we want to be a pioneers in advanting the right to live,

we need to that knowledge, that also non human spieces,

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