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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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To: gov_bean_ counter; donhunt

I guess my point is that pig farms smell awful anyway. Doesn’t seem like onions would make it better or worse.


21 posted on 12/27/2011 2:51:16 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: goseminoles

I don’t know how kimchi farts auto corrected to lunching farts.. lol.. lunching farts doesn’t make sense unless you are Barney Frank.


22 posted on 12/27/2011 2:56:30 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: Olog-hai
1,500 pigs

The only smell I think that is worse than a pig farm would be the containment pond at a chicken farm...of course they also use that heavily fertilized liquid to irrigate their corn fields.
23 posted on 12/27/2011 2:59:08 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: SuzyQue
Know what you meant. Have spent more than my share of time around pig farms. But controlling the scent of pig flatulence is just the type thing I would expect from Germans.
24 posted on 12/27/2011 2:59:48 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Olog-hai

Wouldn’t bother me. I have a bulldog.

And two teen boys.


25 posted on 12/27/2011 3:01:20 PM PST by gitmo (Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
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To: Olog-hai

Pig fart Ping


26 posted on 12/27/2011 3:03:08 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Santa missed my house again....or maybe he's stuck in the chimney. I'll go look.......)
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To: gitmo
Nothing could be worse than soccer shin guards. Those always went in the topper (nonnegotiable).
27 posted on 12/27/2011 3:07:10 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: steveo

I think that is a good name for Michelle.

Suits her.

“Is that the Oniony Pig Fart heading on another vacation?’


28 posted on 12/27/2011 3:08:21 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Slings and Arrows
I didn't wake up this morning expecting to see an article title like this.
29 posted on 12/27/2011 3:08:56 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123 and Bahbah.)
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To: SuzyQue

How could they tell the difference from say a deutsche football team? Methane is methane, and onions are onions.


30 posted on 12/27/2011 3:16:47 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Olog-hai

“...Onions could still be banned as pig food, if the council proves they are responsible for the distinctive farts....”

They need to call Azz Venturi, Fart Detective.


31 posted on 12/27/2011 3:17:34 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

People who want to “live in the country” but not BE in the country-— so therefore locals MUST change. Happens all the time in the US particularly to hunters and horsepeople.


32 posted on 12/27/2011 3:18:46 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SuzyQue

Some people just like to complain, I guess.


33 posted on 12/27/2011 3:19:30 PM PST by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: edpc

Masterblaster run Bartertown!


34 posted on 12/27/2011 3:20:43 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
There were several pig farms that got harassed by developers in my valley because the rich folks didn't like the smell of a pig farm near their fancy new houses. It seemed pretty unfair to me a family farm minding their business for generations and suddenly they are the problem because high end homes go up around them. I have nothing again beautiful homes or pig farms but it seemed that the pig farmer gets porked in such situations.
35 posted on 12/27/2011 3:21:46 PM PST by dog breath
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To: Olog-hai

Their regular gaseous emissions are better? How could they tell?


36 posted on 12/27/2011 3:26:00 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Olog-hai; Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro

Ich bin ein Blurred-eyeliner


37 posted on 12/27/2011 3:27:39 PM PST by mikrofon (Ich bin ein Tagliner)
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To: Olog-hai

Squealing at both ends. Yeah, buddy!


38 posted on 12/27/2011 3:35:00 PM PST by RichInOC ("Stampeding hogs." "That's not much of a crime." "Through the Grand Mosque?" "Kinky. Sign here.")
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To: Olog-hai

I;m always amused by those humongous, run-together words of which the Germans are so fond. I’m sitting here trying to puzzle through just how they’d write “oniony pig farts,” lol.

Zweibel-schweinegefurzen?


39 posted on 12/27/2011 3:35:44 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Olog-hai

Onion fart threads make me laugh ‘til I cry.


40 posted on 12/27/2011 3:48:57 PM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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