{"id":57090,"date":"2024-08-07T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57090"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:57:05","slug":"french-farmer-wins-battle-to-turn-off-4g-antenna-after-claims-of-damaging-cow-herds-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57090","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrench farmer wins battle to turn off 4G antenna after claims of damaging cow herd\u2019s health.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cow_and_5G_Tower.jpg\" alt=\"Cow and 5G Tower\" width=\"771\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cow_and_5G_Tower.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cow_and_5G_Tower-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cow_and_5G_Tower-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plucky French dairy farmer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Salgues sued a cell phone provider\u00a0 earlier this year claiming that, since the cell tower\u2019s July 2021 installation about 200 yards away from his farm, 40 of his 200 cows\u00a0<em>died<\/em>, and milk production decreased by 20% \u2014 starting mere days after the antenna was switched on.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe, but there it was.<\/p>\n<p>After evaluating the evidence, the French court\u00a0<em>agreed<\/em>. The court-appointed expert testified that, &#8220;I have no medical explanation for the sharp drop in milk production, from 15% to 20%, in the days following erection of the antenna.\u201d The judge ordered cell provider Orange to temporarily disable the tower, while the expert evaluates whether the remaining cows recover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeeandcovid.com\/p\/dont-mention-the-war-tuesday-august\">https:\/\/www.coffeeandcovid.com\/p\/dont-mention-the-war-tuesday-august<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plucky French dairy farmer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Salgues sued a cell phone provider\u00a0 earlier this year claiming that, since the cell tower\u2019s July 2021 installation about 200 yards away from his farm, 40 of his 200 cows\u00a0died, and milk production decreased by 20% \u2014 starting mere days after the antenna was switched on. Hard to believe, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cFrench farmer wins battle to turn off 4G antenna after claims of damaging cow herd\u2019s health.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57092,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions\/57092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}