The game menu is certified Made in the Marches, from the forest to the table. Greater safety for consumers and sustainable management of wildlife in defense of farms and biodiversity are the objectives of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in recent days by Francesco Fucili, vice president of Coldiretti Marche, Giuliana Giacinti, regional president of Terranostra, the association that brings together the farmhouses of Campagna Amica, Massimo Iuliano and Francesco Marchetti, respectively regional and Macerata president ofRegional Union of Apennine Hunters (Urca). Together to create an intelligent and virtuous circuit in the field of wildlife containment, an age-old issue that farmers but also citizens themselves deal with on a daily basis.
The first struggling with extensive damage to crops (such as in these days of autumn sowing of barley, soft wheat, durum wheat, field beans, peas) and all others at risk of running into serious road accidents. The agreement provides for the creation of a traced and certified game supply chain capable of guaranteeing legality, transparency, food safety, hygiene from the moment of killing, until marketing and subsequent consumption, with the further possibility of identifying all those involved and their responsibilities: hunter / selector, staging and game processing centers, retailers and restaurateurs.
The signing took place inside the Covered Market of Macerata in the presence (in connection) of the regional councilor for agriculture, Mirco Carloni and Silvia Pinzi, mayor of Serrapetrona. Serrapetrona itself hosts the CLS, the Game Processing Center managed by the Urca, around which the project revolves. There the hunters deliver the animals - especially wild boars - within an hour of killing. The meat is first subjected to strict health checks, processed and finally marketed. Coldiretti will undertake to promote the use of this game at the farmhouses of Terranostra in all the Marche region. Farmer cooks will thus be able to count on certified meat with a geolocation of the place of killing included on the label. The agreement exclusively provides for the use of ungulates killed with selective methods that as part of the containment campaign of the species which, for years in excess and cause of environmental imbalances to the detriment of ecosystems and biodiversity, has multiplied further by taking advantage of the senseless and guilty stop imposed on selecacciatori during the lockdown and the red zone.
An innovative agreement that is unprecedented at a national level. CLS is the first center in Italy managed entirely by an association non-profit, of environmental protection formed by hunters, born through the collaboration with the Zooprophylactic Institute of Umbria and Marche, the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, the University of Camerino, the University of Urbino, the Municipality of Serrapetrona and hunting associations. It is managed by voluntary members and with the economic contribution of the Marche Region, of ATC Macerata 2, of the Comunità Montana dei Monti Azzurri, Fidc Marche, Arcicaccia Marche and Esp Marche.
It is also, according to the text of the protocol, of "a useful solution in order to avoid poaching and black market phenomena, with the involvement of all the social parts (hunting, associations, environmental, agricultural and scientific world). The supply chain appears to be above all the start of a convergence of intentions between the hunting and agricultural world, towards a shared path aimed at containment of ungulates particularly problematic, with direct economic repercussions on agricultural compensation, as well as the creation of a product with high added value for tourist accommodation activities, especially agritourisms, which consume mainly local and related products "(Coldiretti).