Blame. A liberal tradition from birth.
I’m sorta curious if this dairy farming community sprang up around Mr. Adams’ house, or if he built his house in an established dairy farming community and is now whining about being in a dairy farming community.
Who was there first—Mr. Adams or the 3,000 cows?
If one doesn’t like the smell of a farm then move stupid.
There is plenty of housing available in Detroit.
The same people will complian about the pric of food after they’ve driven the small farmers out of busines. Why did you move to the area, Mr. Adams? Stay in urban areas, where you have no organic odors, but you have lots of crime, high property taxes and all the other wonderful things associated with crowded suburbian.
Applying the same standards to air ~ (at least with respect to the prevailing wind) ~ the farmer could be required to retain his emissions and dispose of them differently.
A few wiseguys out there running 10,000 hogs in a 100X60 ft barn certainly bulge the envelope but they also attract the attention of the state legislature.
At the moment a few guys with a few thousand cows are doing all the attracting, but it won't take but 10 minutes and that first factory hog farm will open up UPWIND of all the feeding station employees, their families, and their schools.
That's how they do it in the Midwest.
“Here we go...”
Something wrong with letting the locals decide if they want mega-dairies, or hog operations, or chicken houses, or whatever industrial agri-business operation next door or not?
Move.
People who choose to live near a farm need to understand that farms have animals. Animals make funny sounds and smells. If you cannot tolerate sounds and odors from farms, live elsewhere.
Blame your housing developers for not informing you. The farm and farmers were already there before you arrived.
I grew up near Midland, Michigan ... home of Dow Chemical Company. We lived probably about 12 miles upstream on the Tittabawassee River from the plant, and I can remember going out the back door to school in the morning and the smell would sometimes be enough to knock you over. My dad used to say, “Well, Dow’s making money this morning ...”
This MUST be taken seriously!!
Video of relevant protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA
Maybe it’s just me, but I rather enjoy the faint whiff of cow manure in the air. If you’ve grown up around farms, it’s a pleasant and familiar smell.
Same with horses. I draw the line at pigs.
When they sprinkle the pastures across the way with liquid cow manure, that’s another matter entirely. But that rather horrible and unnatural smell only lasts for a day or so, and then it’s gone. And they get three or even four harvests from the grass, depending on the weather.
Maybe old John can start eating lawyers.....I hear they taste like rat.
Liberals want all the benefits from owning property as long as they do not have to pay a dime for it, they expect mama government to give them, for free, unlimited views of nature, the sounds and fresh air smell of nature, all the services of city living, just because they bought a quarter acre lot in the country side and put up an eco dome with solar panels on the roof. They expect long time land owners to shut down farms, end gravel quarrying, stop shooting & hunting and provide them with vistas by not developing the land bought long before the eco-nut liberals invaded the area.
This story stinks of Bull$h*t to me....
See this horsedoo often, someone moves into neighborhood where a nearby farm has been for years and the newby begins bitchin about the smell.
Because its hard to shut one down on smell, they then start saying water POLLUTION.
Can’t imagine this going very far in DAIRY Wisconsin.
Wait...What? You mean the farmers were there first? And the people who moved in did so knowing that the farmland was there?
Sounds to me like the liberal yuppies want the government to support their stupidity and short sightedness....
Oh yeah. That's what government is best at.
i grew up on a dairy farm.
we were in the middle of nowhere. then the city expanded and gradually over the decades city folk moved out by us and other dairy farms.
they cried foul! it interfered with their bicycle riding they said. blah, blah, blah.
the smell doesn’t bother us.
and then they passed laws outlawing cattle farms from 2/3 of the state.
I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley perhaps 2 or 3 miles from a dairy farm. Best I know the cows were there before our neighborhoods were.