In East Huntspill, a village in Somerset County, residents turned to the local authorities with a complaint about the local Newbridge Poultry Farm due to the unpleasant smell coming from a large number of chickens.

Between March 2018 and throughout the past summer, the Environmental Protection Agency received 160 complaints of odor from the farm. Responding to statements, the Agency asked the owners of the scandalous farm last year to reduce the number of birds kept on it from 312,500 to 192,000.

This year, the Environmental Protection Agency again appealed to the owners of the poultry farm to reduce the number of birds to 133500 in the hope that reducing the number of birds will reduce the sharp unpleasant odor coming from the farm.

In addition to a general decrease in the number of chickens, local activists insist on reducing the number of canopies used to keep birds, and instead of them to reduce the smell coming from birds, they demand to equip the farm with scrubbers and install filters on it.

It should also be noted that last year a wounded council from Sedgmur of the same county sent a petition signed by 2,300 residents demanding the closure of an industrial farm owned by Hook 2 Sisters.