Yet another ideological transmission
The seraphic journalist Sabrina Giannini struck again. And she did it with the usual cynicism and pomposity that characterize her ideological "work" at the service of the most extremist and intransigent animalism and veganism, passionately sponsored by the usual RAI3. The latest episode of his "Guess who's coming to dinner" began with the false title of the so-called "synthetic meat" but it was only a decoy, that is, for viewers. In fact, after a few minutes during which she scrambled to try to demonstrate that laboratory meat is not only a good and right thing but also indispensable, that farmers' organizations have collected over 500.000 signatures from citizens on the basis of a mountain of lies and that Minister Lollobrigida has simply lent herself to their "little game", she soon moved on to the other two subjects she prefers: intensive cage farming and hunters, especially the Italian ones. As far as test-tube meat is concerned, the presenter took pains to demonstrate that the production of meat, in addition to causing suffering and death of animals (it has been this way for millions of years!), is the major cause of water consumption.
Intensive breeding
Too bad, however, that he "forgot" to mention that there are three types of water: blue water (taken from the groundwater or surface water bodies); green water (rain and/or transpiring from the ground during crop growth) and gray water (necessary to dilute and purify production water discharges). Well, since it is green water, which represents more than 80% of the total water footprint most used in the production of meat, milk and eggs, it follows that its use contributes minimally to the phenomenon of feared water shortages. Then it was the turn of intensive and cage farming with truly shocking images of pet bunnies, and in this case, unable to "ignore" that the EU and Italy have set a limit set for 2027 for cage farming, he made fun of the too long timing and the fact that the breeders' lobby is pressing for further postponements. Finally – but it was very predictable and inevitable – Mrs. Giannini moved onto the battlefield she prefers, the one against hunting and this time she used, as always in an instrumental and incomplete way, the problem of lead poisoning which is the subject of in-depth studies in every civilized nation and for which severe measures have been adopted in our country as well.
The behavior of hunters
The fact, however, is that all this is not enough for her because, in her opinion, hunters, while no longer using lead in wetlands, continue to do so in the countryside and in the woods, poisoning wild meat which is then consumed not only by other animals but by man himself. For her very personal offensive, Mrs. Giannini uses all possible and imaginable weapons, including the "cluster bombs" of false data on hunting victims, almost doubling the number of deaths in the last sixteen years; a technique widely used by some anti-hunting associations to arouse indignation and alarmism in public opinion and in the political class. I have always affirmed that everyone can have their legitimate opinions on hunting but that it is profoundly incorrect for a journalist paid by all of us to use the benevolent "connivance" of a public broadcaster to propagate his highly questionable philosophical and moral convictions. Luckily – not only for us but for all viewers – it seems that this ideological malpractice is finally going to end with a radical change in the management and programming of RAI3.
Appeal to institutions
I hope that this open letter will be given due consideration by the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Presidents of the Chamber and Senate, the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security of Italy, and the President of AGCOM, so that they formally and with due severity stigmatize this abuse which has now been going on for too long, offending hundreds of thousands of honest citizens (Paolo Sparvoli, president of the Associazione Nazionale Libera Caccia).