A walker injured by a hunting shot Thursday, October 28, 2021 in Haute-Savoie. A very seriously injured motorist (between life and death) Saturday, October 30, also by a hunting shot, while traveling on the dual carriageway between Rennes and Nantes.
More than ever the presidential candidate for Europe Ecology The Greens, Yannick Jadot, reaffirms its proposal formulated on Friday, October 29: better supervision of hunts and their ban on weekends and public holidays.
What are the reasons for wanting to ban hunting on weekends and during school holidays, when the prefects already have the possibility of imposing a weekly day without hunting?
We have a very pro-hunting President of the Republic. It gives priority to hunters over other nature users. Decrees authorize specific hunts while the government knows that they will be challenged by the Council of State or administrative justice.
The pandemic has reinforced our need to have access to nature: on the part of families, joggers, mountain bikers … Especially on weekends. However, hunting appears incompatible with all these activities. I am from Aisne and I was in this department, in a family home. Shooting could be heard 150 or 200 m from the house. Under these conditions, you do not go out.
Elected officials from other parties rose up against this proposal, believing, like François Hollande, that “only the rich would be able to go hunting during the week” …
This is a joke! Surveys on the hunting population show that this activity is mainly practiced by city dwellers and by an aging population. Conversely, fewer and fewer farmers practice hunting. I want families and as many people as possible to enjoy nature.
“Forbid hunting with hounds and certain traditional hunts”
You also want to better supervise hunting. That is to say ?
Yes, I want to ban hunting with hounds. And don’t come and tell me that this is a popular activity. Certain traditional hunts which are cruel must be prohibited. Another measure: the exit from farms intended for hunting. Nearly twenty million animals (mostly birds) are bred to be pulled right out of the cages. It’s a massacre. Finally, the framework must also concern the overpopulation of wild boars created by hunters. These animals are notably fed by the hunters themselves.
In 2000, Minister Dominique Voynet had imposed a weekly day, without hunting, Wednesday. A measure removed in 2003 by the Minister of Ecology Roselyne Bachelot. Is it a matter of day?
In Britain, hunting has been banned on Sundays for over a century. In the Netherlands, it is also Sunday. In Italy, it is banned at least two days a week and a referendum should be held on its abolition. The debate is coming to Spain as well. I repeat: in France, as many people as possible must have access to nature.
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