Shipper griped about securement, threatened to remove the load..

Or it's longtime residents suing a relative newcomer after all other avenues were exhausted.

Here are the rural residents who sued the world’s largest hog producer over waste and odors – and won. | Food and Environment Reporting Network

 

As I recall it was.

 

It was somebody suing someone who had a single maybe 2,000 head building about 500 yards from the house they moved into. The hog confinement was there before they moved in.

 

It may have been, without a link it's all supposition.

Commericial hog farms are notorious for mismanagement of their slop ponds. When Smithfield chooses a strawman plaintiff and LOSES TO THEMSELVES you know there's a problem. Assuming it's carpet bagging Karen's is rather small minded.

 

This was a barn with the pit under the barn, as most barns built in the last decade or two are. Like I said it's a relatively small barn all by itself, it's not corporate owned I'm 90% sure. Most of confinement I've seen that have a lagoon or slurry store type setup are leftovers from the Murphy era.

 

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of whiners who should live in town. I've lived a hundred yards from hog barns, it's not that bad. In fact the bird smell leftover in the house from the previous occupants was worse.

 

Ummm, they do live in town.

And my point wasn't about any one case. It is assuming that the plaintiffs in cases like these are whiney cry babies is dumb.

Instead of smells, what if it's new lights? Or a new piece of equipment making excessive noise at all hours? Laws and regulations clearly show the farm is in the wrong, but regulators don't seem to care about enforcement. The only avenue left is a lawsuit.

The lawyers and pr firms will paint these litigants as bums looking for a handout while it is their own clients malfeasance that is the issue.

 

Sure they're not, if they have pictures of raw #### running down a creek bank or into a lake or theyre front yard, they have a legitimate issue. Of course they'd be behind the EPA in any lawsuit and they don't tend to leave a lot for anybody else.
#####ing about smell, animal noises, or traffic makes them whiney little cry babies, and that would be the nice things I'd call them.

 

Show me the link of your claim... cause I just threw down the BS card on your claim... Just for the record those are call lagoons... not slop ponds and 1 more added bit... the DNR watchs those lagoons like a hawk
And here in Iowa a producer can NOT build a barn or site with out a permit issued by the DNR.. in which the DNR has to follow protocol that the state of Iowa has set to protect your precious Karen's home
Oh as a added worthless fact.. Iowa is the #1 hog production state in the USA.. so I think they know what their doing
Do you know who own's Smithfield ??