Bente and Soeren sit by the window in their house - looking at the pig factory farm Vandvaerksgaarden only 100 meters away.
For more than 20 years former high school teacher Bente Joergensen and her husband, chemical engineer Soeren Hansen have lived in this old rural house so close to the factory farm in the small village of Tingerup, around 60 kilometer west of Copenhagen.
Bente spends a lot of time sitting in her chair and staring out of the window, and it makes her sad. Her head aches regularly, and her eyes get red and swollen. Bente says that almost everybody living so close to the farms has trouble breathing, or gets headaches or diarrhoea. While Greenpeace Nordic in Denmark was interviewing Bente, she could not help but to burst into tears. Bente said: “The factory farms surrounding our town have ruined my life.”