What part of "pig farm" didn't you understand?
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 ...
Who was there first?
So, some folks bought land to build McMansions, signed a document stating that they knew a pig farm was next door and now they want the pig farm to shut down.
Uh, huh. Right.
Idiots.
I bet the local realtors paid close attention to wind direction when showing the houses!
Stupid people. They were totally unaware there was a pig farm nearby? Idiots. Give 'em gas masks.
The same thing happens to shooting ranges and dairy farms, et al. Regulate them out of business.
And these people vote? Crikey!
go eat veggies!
The same thing happened to this gun club in terms of surrounding developments, but they were able to move.
Err, bonehead. you got it ass backwards.
"I don't think a suburban Boston neighborhood should be in a factory farm."
You signed documents telling you, you were moving next to a pig farm
I’m sure the homeowners figured they could shut down the piggery eventually through legal means later, thereby increasing the value of their homes.
One should do a survey and find out if the people complaining are liberals and democrats. It wouldn’t surprise me of almost all of them are.
Tough....
never mind.
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Hmmm...let me guess, the McMansion crowd did not try to buy the pig farm, they appealed to the Dhimmi Senatrex, who of course will use extra legal means..
The same thing is going on here in Iowa where the college professors and elite professionals want to move out “to the country” then raise a stink (pun intended) about the smell.
There’s a house down the road going for $444K or so that is next door to a farm with an expanding hog confinement facility. Nice house and can’t see the hog farm from there, but I doubt it will sell at that price unless someone from “the country” buys it...;)
What part of "pig farm" didn't you understand?
ay-say utway?
If the farm was there first, then it’s too bad for the idiots who moved in without knowing their neighbors.
Of course the farm will be stolen by rezoning or imminent domain and the farmer will be SOL.
It’s the new American Way.
Awwwww....I thought this was a thread aout the crappy Arkansas Razorback game......LOL
They need a big wind with that manure going directly to the homeowners and their homes.
The homeonwers I would say are the pigs.
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