When a shepherd from Ovodda (who also has a camel), Francesco Ladu, meets a convinced Sicilian animal rights activist, Enrico Rizzi, the clash is served.
It happened during a live video broadcast, organized by the thirty-five-year-old activist who raised a wave of controversy after seeing sheepskins and a camel paraded during the Carnival celebrations in the town of Nuoro. First he asked for the resignation of the prefect and the police commissioner of the Barbagia capital (both of whom remained firmly in their positions), then he appealed to the president of the Region Alessandra Todde (from whom no response has been received) and finally he sent a complaint to the Carabinieri of Ovodda and Nuoro, asking for the seizure of the animal with two humps and an owner. Ladu had already responded with a video: he explained that Rodolfo, that's the name of the camel, was saved from a sad life in captivity. And that he, as a shepherd, loves animals.
And when he saw the live broadcast in which Rizzi announced a complaint against him, he decided to confront him directly.
The dialectical clash seems to be very unbalanced, even in tone. He is calm, sly, at times conciliatory. The animal rights activist is vehement, more inclined to use “bad words”.
Ladu explained that he has all the authorizations to keep the camel. To which, he says, he lets live the good life. Rizzi remained stubborn in his theses, according to which the animals should not even be in the farms. Indeed: «For me the farmers should go bankrupt». Ladu replies: «I think you don't live on this planet and you don't know anything about animals». Then the invitation to Ovodda, with the "traditional Sardinian hospitality" used as a rhetorical foil.