The news of the approval, transversal among the political forces, of an amendment that does well half a million euros to the sterilization of wild boars leaves us speechless. Even a single "wasted" euro, these days, is a punch given to the poor. Allocate hundreds of thousands of them to experience the capture and the sterilization of wild boars it is an offense to those who struggle to make ends meet. There is no scientific document that credits “sterilization” with a value, not even Ispra has ever given credit to this practice. Besides, what will it be the impact of these costly inoculations on other wild species, wolf in the first place? What about humans in case of game consumption? It is not known.
The important thing is to feed a theater, already of an electoral flavor, by addressing audiences of citizens who are denied any scientific information by those in control of the communication. Sooner or later we will have to go back to the polls and citizens will certainly know how to evaluate. Complaining of abstention is a folkloric ritual, the citizens of rural areas have every reason to support it. But not only boars are spoken of in this maneuver, where every political force seems to foresee a flag to be planted for please animal rights activists. In fact, there seems to be a ban on breeding, breeding in captivity and killing of animals used to obtain fur.
That a good 2.000.000 euros will be allocated to the prevention of stray dogs, 7.000.000 to the construction of shelters, 1 million for the sterilization of owned animals and more than 4 million will go to the Mite fund for the recovery of wildlife. We are not prejudiced against these last allocations, but we can be sure that our supervision, on the use of these funds and on the results of so much economic commitment, will be high and steady (Source: Arch Hunting).