Someone has to stop them…. This is how a short article of mine started recently. The writing at the time was the fruit and response to an intervention by the animal rights world regarding their hostile position towards hunting; on that occasion I wanted to X-ray and deepen some of their ideological positions, strongly contradicting some of their behaviors.
For my modest intervention they had to write many insults, even directing angry death threats to my person! But this is a thing of the past. The same fate, as regards the level of insults, recently happened to Caterina Simonsen, the young 25 year old veterinary student in Padua.
The young woman in question, suffering from four rare genetic diseases, is guilty, according to some animal rights representatives, of having thanked the experimentation on animals, the results of which, translated into pharmacological elements, have saved her life. All this essentially allows her to live and also hope for a future recovery. The young woman, seriously and vulgarly offended on her Facebook profile, was threatened with death by those who, once again, put the life of animals before that of people. I expected, at least in this circumstance given the involvement of a seriously ill person, a firm stance on the part of the ministries appointed to this delicate task.
Once again, however, nothing. I remain stunned by this silence, indignant, angry and offended by the failure to take a position by the institutions, which should, precisely because the institution, at least in these cases cling to support and comfort towards those already living in daily misfortune. Maybe! I hope at least that this silence is not the result of unworthy electoral calculations…. even if the doubt torments me. A careful observer, however, certainly cannot escape some aspects which, even within the limits that separate the events of a hunting nature from those of human suffering, have a common denominator: the philosophy dictated by the animalist world, which unites beasts with the human race. A recent symposium, whose main theme aimed to analyze and deepen the relationship between man and animal under the ethical and legislative aspect, ended with the conviction ... at least of the speakers ... .., that the increase of affection for the animal world is proportional to the degree of well-being of society. If this were true, probing back into history, we should recover aspects marked by the custody of the human, perhaps to the detriment of animals.
It is not so. At least in many cases it has not been. See how in the dark years of modern history that concerns Europe, it is dotted with examples that contrast the use of human life with that of animals, even in experimentation. Doctor Josef Mengele for example, sadly known as the "Angel of death" began his experiments on guinea pigs ... and then continued the same experiments on children and young people, thus feeding the horror of the Holocaust. It too, like the direct superior Adolf Hitler, sympathized more with beasts than with men. Is it perhaps for the emulation of these executioners that in the raving anthology of insults broadcast on the web, some local animalists would prefer to save their goldfish rather than Caterina? Or still others who, deliriously, propose experimentation on delinquents and prisoners in an animalistic way? But common sense, at least what our last rulers boast about and consider rich in it, where has it gone? And it continues like this in this infernal circle, where hypocrisy is king, where personal interests are passed off as the necessity of the whole society. And then maybe you try to recover lost electoral spaces, alas, in legal events, having the dog Dudù photographed in your arms, creating also for obvious convenience, Forza Dudù… site for unfortunate dogs.
But he is not the only one who delights in indifference, others who have undeservedly taken his place seem inclined to a collection of consensus through the image of the good family man holding the little dog in his arms, named Trozzi this time and we have examples too. in the opposition just so as not to lose the step! At this point I could also attempt a political career by presenting myself to Montecitorio with the canary cage. It could be a success, given that even the famous partially comic soubrette that rages on channel three, handsomely paid with our fee, is able to suggest to the Municipality of Rome the solution to the age-old problem about the poop of starlings .... proceed to prune the plane trees, he says, so that, lacking support, they go elsewhere… for their needs. Poor starlings. But it is on the specific subject concerning Caterina that the silence of this ruling class makes noise, deafens us all. And it's serious, there's nothing ridiculous here. In this case it is their prudence to expose themselves in vigorously defending the sacrosanct values that we lack, and I am sure that everything is done in order not to antagonize consents, even if ignoble but still numerical consents. It is terrible and obscene.
There would be things to say for all of them, right, left and center. But in the end, staying on the subject, I ask myself doubtfully: who knows if these people who declare themselves animal lovers, to the point of going down the "war path" to hinder their use in experimentation, offending and threatening to defend their beliefs, in case of illness, precisely out of conscience's scruple, will they refuse as an extreme gesture the use of drugs obtained with these methods that are adverse to them?
Lara Leporatti