Hunting: Mr Brambilla presents his bill to the Chamber of Deputies which, needless to say, provides for the abolition of hunting.
Since the beginning of the new legislature, which arose in a time of advanced economic crisis with intentions for change and possible solutions (shared or not) for the problems that grip Italy, one of the Italian deputies in particular stood out for the legislative proposals definitely "useful": we are talking aboutMrs Michela Vittoria Brambilla, a diehard animal rights activist at any cost who, among the many animal rights Bills, last March 17 decided to present one that envisages and demands nothing less than "the abolition of hunting".
According to the text presented by Brambilla, hunting is no longer useful to anyone since it is reduced to an activity whose "true essence consists simply in" persecuting and killing "living beings. Continuing his presentation, the Honorable Member states that hunting can still be understood when “Practiced by primitive peoples, for whom it is still necessary and perhaps linked to a magical-religious conception of the world. In modern civilization it appears for what it is: anachronistic and morally unjustifiable ”. We then read in the presentation that hunters are harmful to the environment as they "spill" a total of about 14.000 tons of lead every year (Ed. The calculation is made by the Honorable Member taking into account that in Italy according to FACE there are about 850000 each shoot 480 35g cartridges ...).
Hon. Brambilla, however, is not a fool and knowing that in the modern age it is still necessary the containment of some species considered harmful to agriculture, "where the damage is documented and verified by ISPRA", will be practiced by the State Forestry Corps after consulting ISPRA and obviously only using "ecological methods"; naturally, for this amount of additional work, ISPRA will be awarded a loan of 5 million euros while the Forestry should do the work that is currently being carried out by about 700 thousand people.
Surely this is the best way to get out of the economic crisis, in this way there will certainly be a revival of the economy with the creation of new jobs. We hope, however, that there are many of these jobs so that we can make up for those that would disappear with the abolition of hunting and therefore of the entire economic sector that revolves around it; millions of euros from the sector, including VAT and other taxes, which alone contributes a point of GDP to the Italian basket. According to Brambilla's vision, everything would be resolved by closing the hunt and giving five million euros to ISPRA to compensate for any kind of problem concerning wildlife management, so the Italian hunters could even thank her for the proposal made since with the abolition of the hunting would save around 215 million euros in government concession fees that the state could certainly do without.
The worst thing about this proposal is the stubborn vision of obtuse animalism at any cost, a vision of reality completely outside the real one and devoid of the slightest knowledge of the facts, according to which The Honorable Member has no problem proposing a regulatory change that envisages the total cancellation of an entire economic sector as a "negligible" side effect (wildlife companies, farmers, companies producing cartridges and rifles, gunsmiths, dog breeders, etc.) without taking into account the countless families who find sustenance thanks to it, delivering a further blow to the Italian economy already in disastrous conditions.
25 June 2013