PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    1226 months ago

    This is a legitimate problem in rural areas. People will move in next to a pig farm and then complain about the smell. Glad to hear the French farmers got a win.

    • teft
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      246 months ago

      A similar problem happens in cities. People move to cities not expecting all the road noise and people noise and complain about it. My buddy owns a rental and tells me about the complaints some people have and it always gets a laugh out of me.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        226 months ago

        A few years ago a concert venue was forced to shut down because the land next to it turned into a residential area and they all started complaining about the noise whenever there was a concert.

        Imagine moving in next to a place that’s sole purpose for existing is loud music and then complaining about the loud music.

        Humans are fuckin dumb and I can’t wait till we’re gone

      • @shalafi
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        66 months ago

        There are 2 Navy helicopter training bases here. This is not a new thing.

        And people here as still upset, whine and sue the Navy.

        They’re very polite BTW. The choppers almost always get to significant altitude before moving around.

        • @grayman
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          26 months ago

          It’s happening around the Denver airport (again… happened at the old Stapleton airport too). You stupid idiots bought the house knowing it’s next to a giant ass international airport! That’s why it was so cheap!

      • @DV8
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        226 months ago

        It’s something that was happening at least 20 years ago as well. Though specifically for pig farms’ smell: regulations of how to deal with the smell has long existed and quite often if there’s complaints they’re not using the filtration system because it’s expensive to maintain.

        I live within 200m of a pig farm and I’ve never smelled it itself.

      • @topinambour_rex
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        176 months ago

        No, it existed long before covid. There is towns which made a contract for people moving there, which deny them the right to file against the church’s bells noises or cow’s moo by example.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        In the article, which was a daunting 200 words, it talks about cases from 2016 and 2019.

      • Throwaway
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        26 months ago

        Its been happening for a very long time. Usually its farms, but it applies to anything loud and/or smelly. Racetracks and gun ranges are good examples.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Animal agriculture can be a detriment for other farmers through soil and air pollution, and smell can be a good indication.

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    476 months ago

    The pronunciation is meuuuuh.

    Not sure about you folks, but I get my meat the way our good lord intended: naturally grown in a lab.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      If we weren’t meant to solve modern problems with modern solutions, we wouldn’t have been given brains to do it.

  • @DerpyPoint
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    436 months ago

    Where do the city dwellers think their organic food comes from?

    • @[email protected]
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      Ya gotta feel bad for them.

      I grew up in a rural area around farms. Knew farmers. I never thought about where food came from…it was kind of obvious.

      Now I never had to kill my own chicken or anything, but poor city dwellers are so isolated they have no chance to understand.

      They’re like the people in Brave New World, taught that everything “out there” is bad, dangerous, deadly.

      (On that note, Chicago, NY, Philly, Baltimore, LA, Portland, etc, would like a word).

      • @jeffw
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        266 months ago

        … flip the script dude… sounds like you’re afraid of city people

      • kase
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        126 months ago

        They’re like the people in Brave New World, taught that everything “out there” is bad, dangerous, deadly.

        Yeah not in my experience. Who told you that?

        • @jeffw
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          26 months ago

          People are bad at statistics. Murder numbers might be high in some places that the original comment named but 1. The populations are larger and 2. Violent crime is a minority of overall crime. Murder is a tiny fraction of violent crime

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        16 months ago

        City people….isolated? That’s an interesting take lmao.

  • bedrooms
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    396 months ago

    But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

  • theodewere
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    296 months ago

    the cows mooed, the pigs oinked, the roosters crowed and the French Parliament has heard their voices

    • @NightAuthor
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      126 months ago

      Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

      • kase
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        86 months ago

        I do bite your thumb.

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    The French law, in its majesty, permits cows and people alike to moo in the countryside.

  • gullible
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    66 months ago

    And the award for the most endearing headline ever written goes to…

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    Moooonsiours, Madamooooselles of the court, I moooove you to ignore these awful udderances and meat the cattle half & half way. The other side is milking this offal.

  • bedrooms
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    -46 months ago

    But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

  • bedrooms
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    But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.