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Oniony pig farts legal, court rules
The Local ^ | 22 Dec 11 10:29 CET

Posted on 12/27/2011 2:25:52 PM PST by Olog-hai

A court in the northern German town of Osnabrück has ruled that a farmer is allowed to feed his pigs vast quantities of raw onions, despite complaints from neighbors about their eye-watering gaseous emissions.

The farmer has been feeding his 1,500 pigs several cubic meters of onions every week for the past 14 years, but city authorities ordered him to stop, and threatened to fine him €2,500 (US$3,267), after locals complained of the resulting pungent porcine farts.

The council justified its decision on the grounds that planning permission for the pigsty forbade “strong-smelling foods, e.g. kitchen waste.”

But the court overturned the decision, saying that the city council had imposed the penalty on the assumption that the onions were to blame for the stink without providing sufficient evidence. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: farming; flatulence; napl; pork
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1 posted on 12/27/2011 2:26:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
"Oniony pig fart"

Didn't think I'd read a headline like that when I woke this morning.

2 posted on 12/27/2011 2:28:30 PM PST by steveo
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To: steveo

Feed them garlic and you would have some great tasting meat.


3 posted on 12/27/2011 2:30:02 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: Olog-hai

that could make for some good, onion-infused pork...


4 posted on 12/27/2011 2:30:05 PM PST by ghost of nixon
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Whew, that's a relief! For a minute there I thought I might have to report my 12-year old son to the authorities.
5 posted on 12/27/2011 2:30:05 PM PST by Sideshow Bob
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like global warming activists - anti-animal methane nonsense to me.

I bet the infused onion makes some great bacon and chops!


6 posted on 12/27/2011 2:31:24 PM PST by Ripliancum (Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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To: ghost of nixon

you beat me too it!


7 posted on 12/27/2011 2:32:13 PM PST by Ripliancum (Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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To: Olog-hai

Pigs are amazing creatures. They take all that slop that nobody wants to eat and they turn it into mmmMMMmmmmmBACON! < drool >


8 posted on 12/27/2011 2:33:27 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder what they would prefer the pig farts smell like?


9 posted on 12/27/2011 2:35:59 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: goseminoles

BTTT.


10 posted on 12/27/2011 2:36:30 PM PST by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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To: Olog-hai
I thought this was about Whoopie Goldberg on The View.

Then again, it could have been about Congress.....

11 posted on 12/27/2011 2:36:52 PM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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To: Olog-hai

Who run Bartertown?


12 posted on 12/27/2011 2:37:57 PM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t care what you feed ‘em, if you’re downwind of a hogfarm, you better have a gas mask!


13 posted on 12/27/2011 2:38:30 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Olog-hai

Somehow I’d expect onion to only improve the odor in question here.


14 posted on 12/27/2011 2:41:19 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai

It sounds like some city folk moved to the country to get away from it all and found there was a different “it all” already there. When they complained about it, the farmer searched for some cheap, smelly food to send the whiners crying to the “city” authorities.

Similar things have been happening in the US too with similar results. When you move to the country, you should expect things to be (and smell) different. You should not expect the country folk to cater to your wishes at the expense of their livelihood.


15 posted on 12/27/2011 2:44:00 PM PST by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: SuzyQue

Cabbage farts.


16 posted on 12/27/2011 2:44:12 PM PST by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: steveo

“Didn’t think I’d read a headline like that when I woke this morning. “

Know what you mean. It’s usually at least Thursday before the oniony pig fart stories appear.


17 posted on 12/27/2011 2:44:41 PM PST by jessduntno (The Republican elite hates him, Rove hates him, Boehner hates him, liberals hate him. It's Newt!)
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To: SuzyQue

Sauerkraut?


18 posted on 12/27/2011 2:44:41 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Olog-hai
Oniony pig farts legal, court rules

If they outlaw oniony pig farts, only outlaw pigs will have oniony farts.

19 posted on 12/27/2011 2:45:15 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Lunching farts??


20 posted on 12/27/2011 2:50:53 PM PST by goseminoles
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