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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).

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] EncryptKeeper 4 points 1 year ago

Same thing happens with fire houses. People movie into a home directly next to or across from a fire house that has stood for over a hundred years and then complain about the siren.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got a link? Sounds interesting

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Amphitheater

Though reading through it the noise complaints were only a part of the issues that caused them to close

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, looks like a pretty minor factor.

[–] shalafi 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 year 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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But what do you do if a pig farm moves next to you?

[–] Tylerdurdon 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] DerpyPoint 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] cryptiod137 35 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

NIMBY!!! /s

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Moue

(I tried "meaux" but that's just mo.)

[–] RustyNova 10 points 1 year ago

French here

It's "Meuuh". Pronounced "m-uh"

[–] Sylvartas 7 points 1 year ago

Close enough, Meaux is a city famous for its Brie cheese.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hon Hon hon may I get ur milk hon hon hon

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you moo, sir?

I do moo.

But do you moo at ME, sir?!

[–] NightAuthor 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

[–] Kase 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NucleusAdumbens 4 points 1 year ago

I was just trying to feed you some hay!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That law is old news, it passed few years ago.

[–] DerpyPoint 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you share an older French source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/278224-loi-29-janvier-2021-protection-patrimoine-sensoriel-campagnes-francaises

The law project started in late 2019 and was adopted on January 2021.

Apparently they introduced something this week but I really didn't understand what is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

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