Have you ever smelled a hog confinement?
By sbeauty
@sbeauty (5865)
United States
March 11, 2009 2:45pm CST
There have been a lot of derogatory remarks on the news making fun of government money being allocated to look into the problem of "pig smell". They seem to think it's a joke, but if you've ever smelled a large hog confinement facility, you know it's not. One of these smells so bad that people living near them can't stand to be in their own homes. When someone builds a confinement, property values in the area automatically drop to nothing. I've seen people try and try to sell their homes, and, of course, no one wants to buy them. There definitely needs to be some kind of regulations about where hog confinements can be built, if they're really humane enough that we should have them at all. What do you think about spending government money to deal with the problem these people have created? Believe me, these things smell BAD, TERRIBLE, and HORRENDOUS for miles!
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
15 Mar 09
I don't doubt it. I lie in a rural area, a lot of farms around here, I know it stinks. BUT, thi si NOT a problem for the federal government. Please show me in the ocnstitution where that is outlined as a defined function for them. This is a problem for either your state or local communities to deal with. If you cannot get this money apropriated at state level, then it is time to tart thinking about changing a few faces in your state legislature. I have a lot of tings that need to be dealt with in mysstate, but I am not going to go running to the federal government for every solution, cripe, I wouldn't trust them to watch my dog, let alone some of the preoblems we have. This is why the federal government is so out of control, because everyone in their bother has seen them as the first and final solution, this is not the way it was intended, we have become to complacent in running our states.
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@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
17 Mar 09
I agree that the federal government is involved in far too many things that should be taken care of by the state. However, since the subject of hog smells has reached the federal level, I hope they use some judgment and use the money wisely. Setting aside funds to discuss a problem seems like a waste to me. I think they should spend the money in actually doing something.
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@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I've smelt them, to be sure. And, as well as hog confines, I've driven through/by some of the nation's largest cattle yards as well. Yup, it's disgusting--that's an understatement.
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@ladygator (3465)
• United States
7 Sep 09
I think that it should be funded as to make this a better place for the people around it. Especially if they didn't have a say to the making of it. That just seems wrong to make people be there in the place where it just smells foul. I am not a very happy person if I am being assaulted with stink.
