Hunting in Tuscany: Alessandro Memmi, Caccia Ambiente-Grosseto sends a message to Angelo Properzi of WWF-Grosseto.
As provincial delegate of the "Caccia e Ambiente" party I feel obliged to give an answer to Mr. Angelo Properzi, provincial head of the WWF of Grosseto, since in his press release he makes the hunters appear as a barbaric horde that terrifies all those he meets on their path. This would make us smile if it weren't for the fact that only those who are accustomed to going HABITUALLY in the woods know that this is a lie.
From here a question arises spontaneously: Mr. Properzi deliberately misrepresents things or maybe he is a person who lives the rural world exclusively by watching it in books and on television?
Only those who do not want to declare the truth, or usually live within four walls, are unaware that in the period of mushrooms there are more people in the woods than in Piazza Duomo, and the best period for mushrooms coincides with that of hunting….
Then we come to those owners of companies who would be against the passage of hunters on their land.
It is good to remember that this is allowed by Italian law and Mr. Properzi should know that, as there is damage to crops, it is precisely the farmers who turn to hunters for help: it does not matter that the slaughter involves wild boar, roe deer, pheasants, starlings, pigeons or otters, for them it is important. JUSTLY safeguard the fruit of one's work and the source of one's income.
It is also useful to know that when a farmer suffers economic damage from game, who partly helps him economically is always the hunter, since the money available to the ATC for reimbursements comes from US!
Surely for the WWF it is more important to spend, as has already been done, tens of thousands of euros for the stork, the hermit ibis or for the reintroduction of the Egyptian vulture, for us it is better to give help to the agricultural world.
The amazing thing is how some people are always ready to take sides against the slaughter of animals and never in favor of farmers. Yet it would be sufficient for them to offer to reimburse the damage caused by the game to demonstrate a minimum support to the farmers and thus avoid the killing, but this does not happen punctually, because when it is necessary to take the contributions they are always with outstretched hands but if there is to give …….
To conclude, it is true that we hunters kill animals, but I assure you that the day we eat a pheasant rather than a hare or a boar, we have a chicken or a rabbit or a pig thanking us, the opposite happens with you.
The provincial delegate Grosseto Party Caccia Ambiente
Alessandro Memmi