The campaign of the provincial section of Bergamo of Italian Federation of Hunting to refute the false and defamatory accusations raised by animal rights activists in the local press and also picked up on a national level by some newspapers and by personalities such as Edoardo Stoppa, the face of "Strip the news" and champion of militant animalism. The president Lorenzo Bertacchi thus responded to the accusations, shedding light on the role and activities of the hunters, from the columns of Bergamonews.
In particular, Bertacchi underlined how the hunters repentant for the mistreatment of dogs that can be seen in the LAV and LAC video tarnish only an entire category that it fights precisely these behaviors. The phenomenon illustrated by the animal rights activists does not currently concern the province of Bergamo. The hunters responded to the appeal of FIDC Bergamo sending hundreds of photographs to show the real condition of their dogs.
For Bertacchi, the figure of the hunter is viewed with so much suspicion because there is so much misinformation and an accident that shouldn't happen anyway compared to the activity carried out without problems is more news. The perception is therefore wrong: many think that the hunter can go out at will and take down everything he wants, in reality the rules exist and there is no taste for killing, it is not a sporting activity.