While the Italian hunters last Saturday were preparing for the next day, Sunday 18, the opening day of the hunting season, the environmentalists paraded through the streets of Turin united in a national demonstration against hunting greeted by Minister Brambilla.
The environmental demonstration, which also had the purpose of promoting the abrogative referendum in Piedmont, despite the organization in a big way and the support of some parties as well as Minister Brambilla himself, apparently failed to gather the hoped-for consensus; in fact, there were just over a thousand participants (850 even for the Police Headquarters) compared to the nearly five thousand boasted on the websites of the promoters.
It would seem that many "so-called environmentalists" would have desisted from taking to the streets against hunting for valid reasons such as giving their support for organizing the means for travel to Turin from all over Italy.
La Brambilla looked positively at the protest demonstration and wanted to give its support, hoping with its own message for the abolition of hunting: "Waiting for the day when we can finally abolish hunting, it is important to ensure strict compliance with the directives. and national laws by the Regions, which too often and too willingly yield to the pressure of the lobbies of hunters and those who protect them ”.
In addition, the Minister renews the fundamentals of his animal rights thinking, recalling that "Those who go hunting, in fact, kill innocent animals for pure fun and seriously damage the environment that is everyone's heritage". Finally, Brambilla urges a "decisive refusal to the barbaric practice of hunting" already embraced by "an overwhelming majority of public opinion that must no longer be ignored".
With his speech, the Minister does not seem to want to take into account the countless problems caused by wild fauna in excessive proliferation, which occur in many areas of the Italian territory and which both local and state administrations have to deal with.
Confident of gathering a great popular consensus, Brambilla declares: "Those who oppose hunting have the strength to change things and will demonstrate this with the referendum to be held in Piedmont next year".
The hope of the hunting people is that in the future these environmentalists will demonstrate all the "strength" shown last Saturday during the demonstration in Turin and above all that their arguments continue to be so "valid".