A question and answer that seems to have come to an end, the one between the Hon. Vannia Gava and the animal welfare associations that in these days are clamoring for the cancellation of the 747th edition of the festival of the osei of Sacile. “The lies publicly declared by the Lav must be made known to the thousands of citizens who today fear for their own safety, mistakenly thinking that the animals present in the festival can be a source of contagion; if I were the mayor, I would think of filing a lawsuit to cause alarm "declared the deputy from Sacile, who worsens" comparing the festival to Asian markets is madness, declaring that at the festival there are wild animals on display is a lie: in fact, since 1992, national law prohibits and prosecutes birding, a practice by which wild birds were caught and then resold to private individuals; for about thirty years only birds and farm animals have been exhibited at the festival ”.
MEP Marco Dreosto echoes Gava's words, highlighting that since 2005 the ban on the importation of wild birds into the European Union has been in force, which has decreased the global trade in avifauna by 90%, with all due respect for parrots. parakeets and other exotic, all from private farms. And also for the singing competition arrive the specifications provided by Romano Zambon, Vice President Pro, on the origin of the birds used "for breeders, participating with wild subjects would be impossible, no specimen would be suitable for the competition, to sing in front of dozens of people without fear birds must be bred in captivity, recognizing man as conspecific due to imprinting ".
The President of Pro Lorena Bin also intervenes in the question "breeders and exhibitors are subject to compliance with a very strict disciplinary, the participants in the singing competition exhibit specimens that must be ringed within ten days of birth, like parrots and other species, the Regulations on animal welfare does not however provide for any direct contact between animals and the public ". The President reports that she has canceled every conference to be held in closed rooms and that she has kept the entrance free, avoiding any possible gathering, so that the festival can be held as a real market, guaranteeing the freedom to the public to transit freely through the streets of the city, keeping the tradition of an almost millennial event unaltered, part of the experience of Sacile and its inhabitants.
Once Sacile was the NON PLUS ULTRA of fairs and we hunters anxiously awaited the day of its opening !!!!, today the bird fairs or festivals have become a place only for the sale of Canaries and Cocorite, poultry animals: while the sellers are all, YOU BUY, OR CHINESE ???