Hunting and Fauna: Marche, Coldiretti asks for transparency and greater controls in the wild boar meat market sector to discover any black spots.
"The controls of the Forestry Corps of Pesaro on the game served in the restaurants will also contribute to transparency in the wild boar meat market, verifying the possible presence of" black "games, without the necessary health checks". This is what Coldiretti Pesaro Urbino affirms in commenting on the start of inspection activities on catering establishments.
It would be interesting, Coldiretti underlines, to make a comparison between the slaughter data in the structures in charge and the quantities of wild boars found in the cold rooms. The risk is that meat from clandestine slaughterhouses could end up on the tables, with all the consequent risks for the health of consumers.
Finally, making the wild boar meat market transparent, even extending controls to the whole region, would not only guarantee citizens, but would help make the killing system more efficient, avoiding the danger that, instead of reducing the number of wild boars, we can aim to keep it unchanged or even increase it, ending up realizing real open-air farms, which can be used to supply the market with clandestinely slaughtered meat.
The failure of any political attempt to contain the pressure of wild animals on farms causes damages for three million euros a year and, according to Coldiretti, the time has now come to solve the problem if we do not want the desertification of the mountains and of the hills of this region, with the abandonment of the territory by companies now unable to carry on their business.
Coldiretti Marche
24 October 2012