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French law upholds cows' right to moo in countryside (www.nst.com.my)

submitted 11 months ago by DerpyPoint@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

People are bad at statistics. Murder numbers might be high in some places that the original comment named but 1. The populations are larger and 2. Violent crime is a minority of overall crime. Murder is a tiny fraction of violent crime