Banned smells

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 7:51 PM -0700 11/18/97, TruthMonger wrote:
>* The University of Minnesota was seeking more "specialists" to
>work on its three-year, $390,000 program to set an "odor emissions
>rating system" for regulating the state's 35,000 animal feedlots,
>according to an August Minneapolis Star Tribune story.  Having
>judges, or government officials, go sniff the feedlot apparently
>would give insufficient due process of law; rather, a panel of
>sniffers will develop objective standards on the types of odors and
>their strength.  Already 35 people are employed and have begun
>sniffing the nearly-200 chemical components of cow and pig
>manure in order to categorize them for the formal state stench test.

 This is, pardon me, a minor issue compared to other "smellist"
legislation. Here in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, some areas have
been declared "fragrance free." It's a crime to enter these fragrance-free
zones with banned smells.

--Tim May

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