The comments on the topic of hogs was kind of buried under a "For this week" post from Feb. 4, and I know people have had trouble finding it since the printed version was in the newspaper. So I posted the two existing comments below so folks can read them and post new comments here rather than under the Feb. 4 post. - Dan
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aneighbor said...
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.
February 24, 2008 2:10 PM
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HFH said...
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.
February 28, 2008 9:55 PM
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Hey aneighbor and HFH you like to eat right? That is what i thought. Well i was just browsing the internet checking up on good old washignton (i once lived there) and this is what came to my mind. What do you expect living out in the country clean air free of dust and odors. If you want that move to the outskirts of a city or something and leave the farmers to do what they need to do to make a living and provide the world with food with out having to listen to people like you . You say they live far away from the so called stinch they create well im pretty shure they both lived on the farm site with many pig buildings around. and im pretty shure they can afford these nice things my working there asses of unless there is a new way to make a living on a farm my not doing anything, or is that what you think all that money just falls in there hands after they put those pig buildings up that some how pollute the air, you make it seem like they are realising toxic fumes or something. So i guess what im trying to say is if you cant handle the country get the heck out.
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