La Sagra dei Osei (Feast of Birds) is a trade fair held annually in Sacile the first Sunday after August this year on 15-16 August. The 2008 edition has had over 24 000 paying visitors. And the market focused on the exposure of birds singing, reached the 736esima edition: thus the figure of the oldest folk festivals in Italy. Today, the Sagra dei Osei
- Market National Exhibition Birds, with its singing contest, famous throughout Europe with the presence of thousands of birds, poultry is the most important European event. During the event are awarded the birds identified as the best singers for each category is elected and the "NATIONAL THRUSH.
It 's time to say enough, giving voice to these creatures forced to "sing" their crying in a cage.
Small birds are bred to live in a cage and entertain with their their beauty and singing an audience that completely ignores their right to be free.
These migratory birds (redwing song-thrushes, larks, pigeons, blackbirds) and exotic birds (canary, parrots ...) to which generations of breeding cages and have not taken the wild spirit and above all the desire to fly.
Visiting the Bird Fair is her heart: hundreds and hundreds of feet of cramped cages, with their young prisoners, who can not fly away. The
FIMOV (Italian Federation Events Bird Hunting) and 'Italy in the largest promoter and organizer of trade fairs bird hunting. It is an organization composed of hunters, or people who in their spare time like armas rifle and shoot with other living beings, and they hold in extremely small cages used for hunting birds and show them and let them compete in exhibitions organized by them.
We ask you to join us in expressing your disagreement with the Sagra dei Osei Sacile: just a few lines, without insults, but firmly, preferably in writing as your fist ... The important thing is to send information to the local newspapers (if not all our mail will certainly end up in a drawer in the Pro Loco of Sacile).
You can write to:
info@prosacile.com
and for information to the press
pordenone@messaggeroveneto.it
pordenone@gazzettino.it
you can also send a message to the Mayor of Sacile Roberto Ceraolo http://www.comune.sacile.pn.it/index.php?page=sindaco
For info on this festival and in general on the subject :
http://www.pordenonewithlove.it/index.php//Eventi/Sagra-dei-osei
http://www.tradizioniviolente.org/fiere1.html
http://www.tradizioniviolente.org/ fiere2.html
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