CNCN: the article by Kristen Schmitt, thanks to the intervention of the CNCN, also mentions the "wild and good" project which involves the department of veterinary sciences and public health of the University of Milan, the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo and the Italian Society of Preventive Veterinary.
Game has always been a fundamental element of human nutrition and can continue to be so. This time, National Geographic gives credit to the merits of meat from wild animals with a feature, on the website of the main edition, in the column The Plate (here in English: https://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/30/want-the-ultimate-in-local-food-hunt-it).
The in-depth study, by Kristen Schmitt, after an introduction on the increase in the consumption of game meat in the United States and some sociological and economic ideas, moves on to scientific studies that somehow certify the wholesomeness of the choice and, for to do so, he cites the project “Wild and good. A food supply chain to be enhanced ”with interventions by Professor Paolo Lanfranchi and Filippo Segato, general secretary of FACE Europe. An initiative, the latter, which is an integral part of the working table presented last January in Rome, with a repeat at the HIT Show in Vicenza in February, on the revaluation of hunting and hunters in conservation and environmental protection projects together to the world of agriculture, more advanced environmentalism and university research.
Schmitt then listed a series of considerations, from the healthiness to the ethics of a choice that has much less impact on the environment than intensive farming, which has been trying to emerge in Italy for some time. Then a comparison that still sees us in difficulty in terms of popular favor towards hunting, given the unattainable peaks of Sweden (87%) and the United States (79%), but in the end a conclusion that bodes well.
The starting point for the in-depth analysis of the National Geographic, which we hope will soon be translated and published also by the Italian edition, is the growing international attention towards the consumption of so-called KM 0 food. multiple facets cannot leave such an important activity as hunting (but also fishing) on the sidelines and which Schmitt concludes with a hope, namely that - also in function of the increase in the population of some wild animals (such as deer) - maybe in the future many more people will find something new on their plate.
Rome, 4 May 2015