The newspaper: "the Senate of the Italian people approves an amendment on which even moderate hunters, those who respect the art of hunting, grumble in silence. "
While the whole world wonders what measures are really effective to protect an environment that, with the arrogance and ignorance typical of our species, we have degraded to the point of procuring a long and slow agony in the name of cancerous and degenerative diseases, the Senate of the Italian people approves an amendment on which even moderate hunters, those who respect the art of hunting, grumble in silence. Should, and God forbid, also pass the Chamber, Italy would become one of the most backward countries in an enlarged Europe, in terms of environmental protection and wildlife.
Today the hunting activity takes place in Italy during the period from September to the end of January. Five long months that see dozens of species, including the majority migratory, decimated in the periods of passage, when the more civilized countries allow those who make that arcane and admirable journey that we call migration to rest in the stretches of water, in the meadows or among the friendly fronds of secular plants. But for the gunsmiths lobby, even more so for that of extremist hunters, five months is no longer enough. Not even the negative opinion of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, not even the initially negative opinion of the same Minister Ronchi have managed to stem the economic interests and wild passions of those who want to grant the Regions the possibility of derogating also on the number of months in which you can go hunting. This means that the Regions will be able to decide that in August or February it is possible to continue hunting.
"And so - Danilo Selvaggi of Lipu tells me disconsolately - whoever took the first quiet walks in early February, will have to wait until March, before the guns disappear from the home ground". Think then of August, with woods and meadows full of tourists and hunters who already regularly mistake accountants for wild boars.
Minister Brambilla is seriously worried. "Beyond the political positions - he says - Italy is a country in which tourism acts as a driving force for the economy and cannot afford to subject those who love being in contact with nature to the risk of being shot, as sadly already and too often it happens in the canonical five months of hunting. An unacceptable amendment ».
The paradox is that all this takes place in the context of EU law which Italy needs to respond to the complaints of the European Commission. On this matter, the commission accuses Italy of hunting "too much and badly", of not providing for an absolute ban in periods of migration, and of granting too many exceptions. "Given these premises - concludes Selvaggi with sad irony - Italy is organizing itself to hunt even more and worse". Of course we will pay with our taxes the fines that Europe will impose on us for our insane disobedience.
I already hear the vehement replies of the hunters, especially the more extremist ones (Senator Carrara, I am sure the director is ready to host the debate), but let me grant that, from moderate and wise hunters (and there are!) I expected a clear and opposite stance on a measure that dishonors the purists of the ars venandi and that, if unfortunately it were to pass to the House, it will turn into a Pyrrhic victory for the majority which will result in a resounding loss of electoral votes. Meditate, ladies and gentlemen, when it is your turn to decide.
Source: The Newspaper