Animals are among the everyday "tools" used by medical research institutes and pharmaceutical, virology and toxicology laboratories.
This issue regularly incites heated debate between defenders of animal rights and those who hold the notion of "a necessary sacrifice for scientific advancement".

For centuries, animals have paid a heavy price to man's scientific conquests.
As ideas about living organisms and in particular the status of animals evolved, people began to question animal experimentation in the mid-20th Century.

Termites are not only destroyers of the fundaments of our houses … Primarily, they are unsurpassable architects and indispensable recyclers. If you are looking a little bit deeper into these miniscule bugs, you will discover social insects with queens and kings, nurses and soldiers, masons and even farmers, that are not inferior to bees and ants. "C'est pas sorcier" invites us to discover the universe of these little, bad gourmands that are on the one hand cumbersome but on the other hand very utile.