Paul Sparvoli, president ofNational Free Hunting Association, issued a statement to make his state of mind known. Here is what you can read: “Since there have been no fatalities in about a month, the animal-vegan troops fill the silence by making up the usual accusation, indifferent and completely unfounded that calls into question the hunters blaming them forpoisoning of hundreds of dogs throughout Italy, with a peak which, according to them, coincides with the months of February and March.
The usual journalists, among whom stands out for bitterness towards hunters Mrs Margherita De Bac and more recently Roberta Scorranese, even without a shred of proof and forgetting that dozens of dogs and cats are regularly poisoned in public parks within large cities, return to accuse "By hearsay" and following their very personal convictions, the whole world of hunting that has nothing to do with this barbaric and criminal practice.
To rekindle the periodic fuse against hunters was an interview with the writer Susanna Tamaro who, saddened by the death of one of her dogs and while admitting to being "... a friend of many hunters and I know that most of them love nature ..." " does not hesitate to point the finger in the usual direction: "She died of cardiac arrest after ingesting one of those morsels that certain hunters or breeders leave around to neutralize foxes or other animals ... today anyone can go and buy a kilo of rat poison without controls ...". Our lawyers have already been instructed to examine the articles published on 14 and 15 January on the pages of Corriere della Sera to find out if there are grounds for filing a formal complaint for slander in the press.