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There’s some real beef between the cows and humans of France.
Amid noise complaints from residents in the countryside, the French parliament has upheld a law that grants cows the right to moo.
Police receive hundreds of noise complaints about mooing cows every year from grumpy neighbors, mostly urbanites who moved to the rural countryside for peace and quiet, The Guardian reported.
But new legislation will no longer allow people to bull-y their farmer neighbors over crowing roosters, mooing cows, stinking pigs, the sound of tractors or the smell of manure.
“Those who move to the countryside cannot demand that country people who feed them change their way of life,” French Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti said last year when the law was introduced to parliament.
Those disappointed with the sounds and smells of rural life can no longer take their neighbors to court over noises during the night if the work is legitimate.
At the annual Paris agricultural show in March, Dupond-Moretti noted that courts were being “clogged up” with disputes about cows mooing in the dead of night.
“What should be done? Sedate them? If you don’t like the countryside, you stay in the city, and if you go to the countryside you adapt to the countryside as it is already,” he said at the time.
From here on out, those who choose to live near, next to or above an existing farm, shop, bar or restaurant cannot complain about noises or other inconveniences.
“I’m thinking, for example, of the pizzeria on the corner of the street that, certainly, produces smells and noise but was there before you moved in on the first floor,” Dupond-Moretti explained.
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