Posted on 09/27/2008 4:27:30 PM PDT by Lorianne
Tewksbury may be a picturesque New England town, but a fight over a pig farm's stench has the community in an uproar, frustrating public officials and turning neighbors into bitter enemies.
Today, one of the largest pig farms in the state sits in the midst of a growing suburban community of 30,000. Pigs live in neighborhoods where sport utility vehicles rule and backyard swimming pools are increasingly the norm. At Krochmal Farm, named for farmers who tilled the land generations ago, more than 900 pigs live in a barn perched atop a 500,000 gallon manure pit, all of which sits a light breeze away from vast tracts of ranch houses and minimansions.
"We have a unique situation here," said state Senator Susan Tucker, Democrat of Andover, who is leading an effort to regulate the farms. "When families can't go outside on hot summer days, something is wrong."
Some complaints come from residents at a luxury subdivision next to the farm, even though the people who live there signed a legal document recognizing the farm's existence at the time of purchase and the pig farm was there long before the residents.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Well then why did they friggin move there????? I vote for the pigs!
Maybe they were such ‘city folk’ that they didn’t realize what a pig farm would smell like. I bet that a lot of these homes were purchased in the winter.
From the article:
"Some complaints come from residents at a luxury subdivision next to the farm, even though the people who live there signed a legal document recognizing the farm's existence at the time of purchase and the pig farm was there long before the residents."
The "bitchers" should shut up and live with it or move out.
Michigan has a “Right To Farm Act”.
Do you know if Massachusetts does?
Put a special tax assessment on the complainers' properties and use the money raised to buy a methane digester for the pig farm. The smell will be ameliorated and the people complaining will be the ones paying.
Oh, and don't forget to keep collecting the tax long after the digester has been paid for; instead divert the money "for the children" ... that is how Democrats roll after all.
Uh, huh. Right.
Around me,
1) Individual moves into a house next to a long-established small airport. Squeals and screams. Everyone now has to turn 45° left at 400' on takeoff so as not to scare the complainer.
2) Individual moves in near a Rifle&Pistol Club that is 80 years old. Tries closing range. When that fails, calls police complaining of "bullets hitting roof". Police show up, climb ladder, find UNFIRED INTACT ROUNDS in raingutters, thrown there by hand.
Die, Yuppie Scum. Leave. Go back to the City.
Why don’t all the home owners get together and make an offer to buy the pig farm?
I’m sure they’ll sell at the right price.
But I’m sure the home owners don’t want a solution that costs them $.
Unfortunately, the concept of “eminent domain” also covers idiocy of the Masses. Always has.
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