For more than 20 years former high school teacher Bente Joergensen and her husband, chemical engineer Soeren Hansen, have lived in an old rural house only 100 meters away from the industrial pig farm Vandvaerksgaarden in the small village of Tingerup. When the smell is strong, she wears a face mask outdoors. Bente said: “The smell is so awful, that it makes me feel sick, my head aches and my eyes are red and swollen. I feel that our lives are destroyed because of the smell, noise and dust from the farm.”