Arūnas Milašius. New Lithuania: why a cow when you can buy milk in a store
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I love the Lithuanian countryside. It is pure and virtuous, the birds are chirping, the spirit of the ancestors is floating there. Peace and quiet. It is very good to conduct meditation courses. My friends from the office, where beanbags and fruit were free before the quarantine, also liked it.
We adore national traditions – in the hot tub and pearl bath, on the terrace with a heated floor – we discuss climate change until dawn.
Everything is very good for a Lithuanian village, except for invasive animals, which should be limited somehow. Can reserves or national parks be closed?
such as cows. I don’t really understand why those villagers are already waiting. Maybe a goat or a kitten would be enough?
Everything is very good for a Lithuanian village, except for invasive animals, which should be limited somehow. Can reserves or national parks be closed?
such as cows. I don’t really understand why those villagers are already waiting. Maybe a goat or a kitten would be enough? But, you know, those unsubtle villagers want a cow no matter what. And when you are in a pure Lithuanian village, having discussed the terrible ecological problem in Africa until four in the morning, trying to sleep, they start milking those cows, and the hornbills make noises, disturbing your rest. And no complaints help.
Don’t those villagers understand that milk, as a food product, can be obtained from far away without disturbing the peace. Just go to the mall and buy? There is also a very cheap one, made of water, and there is also a normal one, made of soy or almonds. Why torture yourself and those around you?
Charisma.
But it is a very sad sarcasm, because consciousness and political will are looking for people and have become even more two-faced. If a public declaration is made about the need to live in harmony with nature and the environment, in reality it simply becomes a tool to create or a more comfortable environment without sentiments pushing others aside.
The short essay at the beginning of the commentary was inspired by a real story. Settlers from the city bought a homestead in the village. They knew very well that there was a dairy farm nearby where, miraculously, cows were to be milked. When the black cat ran among the neighbors, complaints and lawsuits poured in.
However, the Supreme Court of Lithuania announced in its final and non-appealable ruling that it was not established in the case that the farmer together with his husband around 6:09 a.m. when milking cows with a morning milking machine, this machine could be used outside of its intended purpose and such actions would disturb the object protected by law – public order.
According to the court, there is no reason to establish illegal actions and no liability can arise according to the Code of Administrative Misdemeanors, which provides for liability for public disturbance.
At the end of October, the court cancels another fine of 20 for the noise made by the milking machine
According to the court, this activity is characteristic of rural settlements, and it cannot be considered as playing with other audio devices, and is also classified as other noise-making actions (for example, loud knocking on windows, loud music), often disturbing the peace, rest or work of individuals.
The court pointed out that the farmer’s neighbor JM, who complained about the noise, bought the homestead in 2017, in the summer of 2020 she heard the sound of the unit, but did not make any claims or complaints, although she used the milking unit itself, the milking area was in that place.
One of the options is “I have come, and now, my dears, adjust to me.”
It must be said that here are not only the sins of compatriots, but also of businesses, which, when necessary, declare sustainability and social responsibility, but when necessary, with a clear conscience, spit on everything that hinders increasing profitability.
It must be said that here are not only the sins of compatriots, but also of businesses, which, when necessary, declare sustainability and social responsibility, but when necessary, with a clear conscience, spit on everything that hinders increasing profitability.
Thousands of residents of Vilnius district found themselves in an unenviable situation. It is intended to establish a sanitary zone of the Vilnius Poultry in their residential area. It would include about 800 plots of land, mainly four educational institutions.
In the sanitary zone, any new development would be prohibited, no new kindergartens, schools, recreation areas or medical facilities would be allowed, and people would not even be able to renovate their own. The poultry house is hoping for a compromise, but residents are already preparing a class action lawsuit.
Another, even more cruel, option, when, possibly, the support of the proposed funds is simply absorbed, political points are collected, and the consequences and broken destinies are completely uninteresting. For example, the destruction of animal farms. A political decision and a business that fed good people will simply be written out of the economy as wrong. It is true, whether pig and cow farms will also be destroyed and how are they ideologically different from animals.
“I participated in the discussion on the closure of fur farms. It was decided to simply destroy them, and I watched with what cold-bloodedness this was said and done, even though people’s lives were destroyed, everything they created was taken away. Animal breeders are literally crying because it’s a business they’ve built over a lifetime that’s just being thrown away and no one cares. Similar decisions are made too lightly. In the future, this may have a very painful impact,” says Aušrys Macijauskas, head of the Lithuanian Grain Growers’ Association.
But such details are not usually of interest to tax teachers and European foundations.
What I am talking about is the changed focus, when the citizen no longer has to adapt to the society and try to be useful to the society, and at the same time to himself, and the citizen strives to adapt to it, begins to destroy our community. Slowly, step by step, complaint after complaint, court after court, but we may come to a point where the changes will be irreversible, because the environment formed for centuries will be demolished and destroyed with a light hand. Both natural and social.
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