They don't stop controversy on the budget allocation from 5 million euro, which also provides for the experimentation of a drug to be administered, via food, against the wild boar species. The EU Deputy intervenes directly from Brussels on the matter Marco Dreosto, which in a note highlights the risk of using contraceptive drugs "the statistical data not only confirm the uselessness of this practice, which was also used years ago even on pigeons, with evident short-term effects, what is worse is the circulation of substances within the ecosystem that could have particularly deleterious effects on the organism of carnivorous or scavenger species, which feed on the meat of treated wild boars. "
Dreosto warns that the use of medicated mixtures could increase the risk of assimilation against a multitude of different species including protected birds and mammals and the ecosystems present in general, not to mention the effects on humans that can feed on the animals taken in hunting. “Absurd to even think about the foraging of the species for the administration of the contraceptive in a moment of presence of African Swine Fever on the national territory: this would increase the risk of contact between animals and the consequent spread of the virus. Whether or not the representatives of 5 Stars and Leu, signatories of this absurd proposal, the only effective methods remain the hunting of the animals or the trapping by means of manhole covers ".