Bente Joergensen is a former gymnasium teacher, and here she sits by the window in the house, where she has lived for more than 20 years with her husband, chemical engineer Soeren Hansen. Their house is only 100 meters from the industrial pig farm Vandvaerksgaarden.
Life here has changed, and the once so pleasant surroundings are now dominated by the presence of several pig factory farms.
Bente spends a lot of time sitting in her chair and staring out of the window. She 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.”