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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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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 110 points 11 months 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.

[–] teft@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago (3 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@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months 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@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Got a link? Sounds interesting

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, looks like a pretty minor factor.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months 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@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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!

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It goes both ways. I remember when I was a kid and visited my family outside the city... Couldn't sleep, it was eerily quiet.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should sue the countruside for being too quiet.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 11 months ago

I'm an adult now, I solve problems in the adult way. I just leave the car running overnight and shut the family cat in there, it always bumps into the horn rummaging around in there. Cars and horns. Just like home in the big city.

[–] f4grx@chaos.social 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

@Semi-Hemi-Demigod @DerpyPoint is that a new thing specific to post-covid city-accustomed people trying to emigrate to the countryside, being bothered by countrylife and trying to eliminate it?

[–] DV8@lemmy.world 21 points 11 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@lemmy.world 17 points 11 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.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 2 points 11 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.

[–] muix@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months 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.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 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@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago
[–] GravityAce@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

NIMBY!!! /s

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Moue

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

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

French here

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

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Hon Hon hon may I get ur milk hon hon hon

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

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

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you moo, sir?

I do moo.

But do you moo at ME, sir?!

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] DerpyPoint@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Could you share an older French source?

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] gullible@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 5 points 11 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.

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