Hunting and Traditions: Veneto, goodbye to polenta and osei; the amendments to the hunting law 157/92 have come into force, absolutely prohibiting the purchase and sale of live or dead birds of small size.
Effective changes to Lecce sulla hunting 157/92 which cancel the traditional polenta and osei. "It is forbidden for anyone to sell, hold to sell, transport to sell, buy live or dead birds, as well as their easily recognizable parts or derivatives, even if imported from abroad, belonging to all species of naturally living birds in the wild in the European territory of the Member States of the Union, with the exception of mallard, red partridge, Sardinian partridge, gray partridge, pheasant, wood pigeon". The final text of the amendments to the national hunting law (number 157 of February 1992) which effectively prohibits the sale of any type of wild bird, with rare exceptions. After the attack on clinto and sopressa, other cornerstones of traditional Vicenza cuisine, the controversy broke out again: "It is madness to prevent serving the traditional"poenta and osei 'in the trattorias of Vicenza and Veneto, but also in Trentino and Friuli and in Brescia and its province! It is a traditional dish on which an economy has developed over the decades, especially in the provinces and in the foothills! " peremptorily affirms Costantino Toniolo (NCD Veneto Autonomo).
“It is absurd that these birds can be hunted first”, comments Toniolo, “but then they cannot be cooked in a public place. They are rules invented in Rome by some bureaucrat who has acquired the European directive on the subject as it is, without "studying" the territory and pointing out the local economies that live off this market, and therefore without making the right distinctions! " “Now at the urging of many restaurateurs in the Vicenza and Veneto foothills, Confcommercio has moved its canals to see if it presses for a change in the law”, continues Toniolo. "I am taking steps to verify what the Region can do and to mobilize parliamentary colleagues in Rome and Brussels to support and make their own the proposal that we will share with the restaurateurs who cook the skewers!".
"I am convinced that in the end with a good teamwork", continues the regional councilor of the New Veneto Autonomous Center-right, "we will be able to make our territory win the battle over the" Poenta and Osei ", just as it was won in the end the one on the "Soppressa Vicenza".
(January 2, 2015)
Source: VicenzaToday