Here is what is planned for this week's newspapers:
Washington County News
Sheering Scheer sheep
County Spelling Bee participant listing
Taddiken and Schwartz give update at Legislative Coffee
Washington City Council
Clifton-Clyde Tribune
Look back at Coach Buller's life
More information on the new computers for the Clifton Library
FBLA district results
CC spelling bee participants
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I just discovered this blog spot. I am assuming anyone can post their comments here. So here goes.
We live out south of Haddam and are being gradually surrounded with hog confinement facilities. The few of us in this area are concerned about what our summer is going to be like with the horrendous odor from these operations. It may be impossible to sit on our front porch in the evening and enjoy ourselves. It may be impossible to hang our laundry outside to dry in the breeze. I guess there surely will be a breeze, but I am sure it will not be very pleasant and our clothes will not smell nice.
We are at retirement age and the thought of spending our senior years in constant stench is very upsetting.
We believe the owners/operators of these facilities are not concerned about the odors as they do not live near their operations and will not be effected when the south summer wind blows.
Welcome to the club "aneighbor". We here a few miles northeast of Morrowville have put up with what you note for at least 20 years.
A couple of our so called neighbors have polluted our "clean air" for that length of time and perhaps even longer. And, of course, as in your case they both live far away from the stench that they create.
I do not make my living at the expense of my neighbor’s quality of life as these people do. One lives southeast of Washington and collects thousands and thousands of dollars worth of antique motorcycles far from the stench of his hogs. The other lives near the golf course in a new home that surely cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars. They both in fact do make their living at the expense of their neighbor’s quality of life!
My advice to you is that you should leave D.T. to his perfect world here in Washington County Kansas and get the heck out of here. That is my intention.
People love their pets and take special care of them. They pamper them and buy special toys for them and even dress them up to look like little people. There are businesses that cater to those who own pets such as Petco and Pet Smart. But I will bet that most people never give a thought to the daily lives of the animals that end up on our breakfast/lunch/dinner plates.
It is fairly common knowledge that pigs are smarter than dogs. They can make wonderful pets. Years ago one of my daughters had a pet pig. She was so cute and obedient. She slept on the floor beside my daughter’s bed. Of course when she got larger we had to do something with her and gave her to a farm family we knew where she would be very well taken care of.
Here is an excerpt about the intelligence of pigs:
“Pigs ?have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly [more so than] three-year-olds,? says Dr. Donald Broom, a Cambridge University professor and a former scientific advisor to the Council of Europe.(1) Pigs can play video games, and when given the choice, they have indicated temperature preferences.(2)”
These facts are not surprising to anyone who has spent time around these social, playful animals. Pigs, who have a great sense of smell and can live into their teens, are protective of their young and form bonds with other pigs. Pigs are clean animals, but they do not have sweat glands, so they take to the mud to stay cool and ward off flies.(3,4)”
This excerpt may be found at:
http://www.peta.org/factsheet/files/FactsheetDisplay.asp?ID=119
This entire fact sheet is well worth reading, especially if you are concerned about your personal health after breathing in the fumes from these facilities, eating the meat (which is filled with antibiotics) that is produced in these factories, and if you are concerned about our environment.
Kansas has a Felony Anti-Cruelty Bill.
Cruelty to Animals
K.S.A. 21-4310
(a) Cruelty to animals is:
(1) Intentionally killing, injuring, maiming, torturing or mutilating any animal;
(2) abandoning or leaving any animal in any place without making provisions for its proper care;
(3) having physical custody of any animal and failing to provide such food, potable water, protection from the elements, opportunity for exercise and other care as is needed for the health or well-being of such kind of animal; or
(4) intentionally using a wire, pole, stick, rope or any other object to cause an equine to lose its balance or fall, for the purpose of sport or entertainment.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
Nine items are listed and of course one of them is: (6) with respect to farm animals, normal or accepted practices of animal husbandry.
Apparently AFOs and CAFOs are exempt!
But laws CAN BE CHANGED if enough people take action.
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