Hunting: a parliamentary question signed by M5S aimed at the use of lead in hunting.
Lead is a toxic metal and, due to its dangerousness, its use is prohibited in many sectors. However, hunting ammunition continues to be produced with lead, with serious consequences for the fauna and for the balance of the ecosystem. "In hunting, animals take lead in different ways: they can swallow ammunition, mistaking them for food, they can ingest the pellets that are inside the bodies of the prey or they can take lead indirectly, through the tissues of the prey. These circumstances - states Senator Daniela Donno (M5S) - favor the spread of saturnism, a chronic intoxication caused by the prolonged ingestion of non-immediately lethal doses of lead ”. For this reason, several examples of the Italian fauna are at risk. Not only. There is also a real danger to human health, linked to those who consume game killed with lead ammunition. "We strictly ask - says Daniela Donno (M5S), first signatory of a parliamentary question on the subject addressed to the Ministry of the Environment, Health and the Interior - if they do not intend to consider launching appropriate initiatives that definitively prohibit the use of lead ammunition in hunting, especially where the impact on fauna has a greater impact ".
“Furthermore, it is necessary to carry out a remediation of the contaminated sites also through a table and perimeter marking of the areas in which the concentration of lead shot is greater. Finally, we ask that information be made among hunters with adequate explanatory campaigns. Such a delicate issue must be examined by the Government - concludes Senator Donno - we cannot continue to ignore the toxic effects of lead on living beings ”.
12 March 2014
Source: GiornalediPuglia