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Let's just do it from here.

Alright, Dan?

Yeah.

All right, the security camera's just there

Where those two pillars are?

The gas tank though, you've got the big tank there.

The gas chamber is, it's more to the right,

it's more towards the puff.

So my heart's pounding.

My body was saying, get the hell out of here.

My worst nightmares were coming through.

I'd have to leave it.

If I'm not willing to risk my life

to expose what's happening to them,

then I don't really care about it enough.

You're on private property, bye-bye.

Hey Joey, what do you got from there?

So, ever since I was a little kid,

I was always an animal lover, but I really love pigs.

Honestly think the catalyst for me loving pigs so much

was the movie "Babe".

And after watching that I would always draw pictures of pigs

and I was at school making cutouts of pigs,

and they were just the main characters in all my drawings.

My name is Joey, I'm from the northern suburbs

of South Australia.

I come from a broken home and my dad left

when I was really young.

From about the age of 14,

I started experimenting with drugs.

I started becoming acclimated to street violence actually.

Things progressed, like what happens

is the environment starts to shape you.

The violence started to step up a notch as well

and it was just a crazy, crazy world.

'Cause when you start getting

to higher level organized crime,

there's starting to be power struggles,

there starting to be wars on the streets,

and there was shootings, and assassinations were happening.

There were stabbings but it was the amount of drugs

I was using that started to spiral my mental health.

And it happens over the course of years.

And yeah, so I always had a gun on me for protection.

You're really stupid if you didn't actually in that world.

And I remember one night I was on the run from the police

and they caught up with me at a cheap hotel,

and they found the firearm down my trousers, and bang,

it was the sobriety that prison gave me

that made me start analyzing my life from a new perspective.

I started seeing that my actions have reactions

and I started thinking to myself,

do I really wanna stay here for the rest of my life?

'Cause that's where I'm going.

So when I got released from prison,

it was an amazing feeling.

I was like so grateful for my freedom, and to see my family,

and I just knew what I'd lost,

and I knew what I could lose at that point.

But that sobriety is what made me change my whole mindset.

I started to really think of my future

and I started thinking, what the gang life, not for me.

That was one of the most anxious times in my life

actually being sober and leaving the gangs

and I had an existential crisis.

I didn't know who I was.

I had an identity crisis but I stayed strong

and stayed sober, and that was the beginning of my new life.

So people might think it's pretty funny

for an ex-gang member,

but even to this day I still really love pigs.

You are my favorite animal ever.

Look at you.

Hello, hello.

I just love pigs.

Hey, bud.

Do I get a cuddle?

I love their demeanor.

I love their intelligence.

I love the way that they care for their families.

Some are playful, some are lazy,

and they all have their own unique personalities.

They're all individuals.

What do you know about pigs?

They're cute when they're small,

and they trot around and stuff.

They're cute.

Let's see, pigs are a domestic and wild animal.

They're found throughout the world

and people think they're dirty

but they're actually quite clean.

They got a curly tail.

A little like noses.

They've got a language of their own.

Have many varieties and colors.

So what do you know about pigs?

They live in pens and we tend to eat a lot of them.

I don't know much about pig.

I know you can get the most meat off of them.

Easy to keep good for sausages, bacon.

What many people don't know about pigs

is everything that happens to them in order to end up

on the supermarket shelf.

I can't blame anyone for not knowing.

I had been fooled for most of my life,

but when I found out what was really going on,

I had to do everything in my power to expose it.

The majority of pigs in the UK are killed in gas chambers.

The meat industry say it's humane,

but they definitely don't want the public to see

what's going on inside of them.

No one has ever planted cameras inside of a UK gas chamber.

I needed to change that,

but it would be the most dangerous thing

I've ever attempted in my life.

For months I studied gas chamber blueprints.

I had to consider so many different variables.

Any mistake could be fatal.

I couldn't do this alone.

So I asked my partner Tarion to come along for the journey

and I turned to Dan to go in as an undercover employee.

Put a ladder here.

This here is the access point.

And then we will climb up there

and walk across the roof to the stairwell.

Yeah, there's a stairwell, external stairwell.

Once we get on there, then it's just a walk around

and then the pigs are here.

So I'm 53 years old, you know what I mean?

I should be sat at home in me slippers and my pipe now.

But I need to do it.

I need to do it.

I spent 48 years of my life paying for this abuse.

So I've got a lot of karma to pay back.

You know what I mean?

A lot of karma to pay back.

And this is the only way I know how to do it.

Because we know what's happening to the animals,

we can't just sit by and let that happen.

We have to do everything in our power to help them.

Joey started planning this even before we met in 2019

when he first told me about it all,

I was like, you are planning to do what?

It was just so many things to think about

and it was something that we were discussing every night

and every day for almost a year.

So if God forsake anything does happen,

most I can do is ring 999.

He looks like a Frank.

You look like a Frank.

I wouldn't get away with Frank.

He's Frank all over.

You get away with Benny though.

Yeah, you definitely get away with Benny.

I'm a Benny.

Yeah, you look like a Benny.

This one is yours.

So that's my lifeline.

We wear these and then we wear the hats.

Mask.

Yeah, we've gotta be carrying that.

Test, test check.

When Joey and I first met, I didn't know

that he was a well-known activist

and when we were getting to know each other

I learned all about his background,

how he turned his life around

and began his work for animals.

Animals do not want to die.

It's just the world we live in.

It's a frustrating situation not being able to run

and help these pigs.

But the best way we can help is to advocate for them

and be their voice.

And things have stepped up and stepped up

as I've been an activist over the years,

and I keep pushing the envelope.

Understand that the language

of what they're trying to say but suffering is universal.

You can see in their eyes.

So in 2015, Animal Liberation Victoria

released an investigation into the gas chambers

in Victoria, Australia.

The action coincided

with the release of footage, the group claims

shows abuse in the pork industry.

Members say it's part of a two-year investigation

where one of the activists infiltrated a gas chamber.

That was the first time I'd ever seen pigs

in gas chambers.

And it was extremely shocking to me.

I didn't even know they were using these machines.

I'd heard about them in history,

I didn't know they were using 'em on animals.

And the idea you get when you hear about,

oh, the meat industry used gas chambers

is they must be using some type of sleeping gas.

So it must be painless.

And it's the impression that the marketing

of the meat gives you.