Mr Barbara Mazzali, regional councilor of Lombardy, thus commented on the question of animals in the Constitution: "Here we go again, the deputy who founded the animal rights party from the percentage close to a telephone area code, Michelle Brambilla, member of Forza Italia and president of the Leiden, is back in charge. In full pandemic, with economic problems that have collapsed our entrepreneurs, the poverty threshold that increases exponentially, Michela Brambilla believes with her proposal that she waved with a survey that says that 91% of Italians would be d ' agreement. The problem is that not all citizens know exactly what such a change means and what damage it would cause.
The proposal calls for the inclusion in the Constitution of the protection of the environment, ecosystems, biodiversity and animals. These days the Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee has been working on a unified text supported by more than 80 animal welfare associations and elaborated by Liberi e Uguali, the Democratic Party, Forza Italia, Movimento 5 Stelle and + Europa. The first problem with this text is that it is too general. One thing above all should instead be precise, because it is fundamental: the differentiation between pets, wild, farmed and dangerous animals. We should all agree that the same rules should not apply to a cat as to a wild boar, but this is not the case since the law unifies everything. The slightest reasoning is missing.
Common sense alone would be enough. Obviously this would create not a few limitations not only for hunters, but also for breeders. Not only. The text would assign to the State, without the Regions being able to say anything, the exclusive competence on these matters, thus reducing interventions at the local level. This would greatly affect the interventions to protect the territory with regard to wild and pests. Already in this way the Regions do not have much freedom of movement, but if Brambilla's proposal were to pass, the situation would become dramatic. In short, it is easy to think "how nice, let's protect the kitten", but the reality is very different and is never explained with precision, precisely in order not to give people the complete picture. "