Rights Federation Flags Critical Issues in Hunting Bill as Senate Debate Nears, Threatens Up to €900 Fines

A federation focused on recognising rights has published an intervention criticising Italy’s hunting bill (DDL Caccia), now before the Senate, highlighting concerns raised by animal welfare and environmental groups. The federation points to a provision that would impose fines of up to €900 on people who protest against how hunting is carried out.

In its note, the federation says lawmakers pushing the measure bear political and cultural responsibility, arguing the bill reflects an anthropocentric approach, increases penalties for dissent, and pays insufficient attention to scientific and ethological knowledge. It also cites appeals from two popes and reiterates that calls to withdraw the proposal were made in recent days around the bill’s key parliamentary passage to the Senate.
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