French Court Orders 4G Antenna Switch-off Over Cow Health Concerns

A court in France has found in favour of a farmer who claimed that a 4G antenna was damaging his cows’ health, and has ordered for the antenna to be switched off for two months.

The administrative court in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) ordered the switch-off after Frédéric Salgues, a farmer in Haute-Loire, said he suspected that it was damaging his herd’s health.

The court said that “it is appropriate to order the temporary cessation of the operation of this antenna for a period of two months, taking into account its general impact, with monitoring, by the judicial expert, of the behaviour of the herd, and of the dairy cows in particular, during this period”.

Operator Orange now has three months to act in accordance with the ruling, including stopping the antenna’s operation while ensuring phone coverage, including emergency calls, for Orange users in the area affected.

After the decision, Mr Salgues told the AFP that he hoped his cows would be able to “recover as soon as possible” and called the case ruling “a major relief and a victory”.

Mr Salgues said that since the antenna’s installation in July 2021 – 200 metres away from his farm in Mazeyrat-d’Allier (Haute-Loire) – around 40 of his normally-200-strong herd had died, and milk production had decreased by 15-20% within days of the antenna being switched on.

He said: “There are no medical elements that could [otherwise] explain this brutal drop in milk production.”

Philippe Molhérat, the mayor of Mazeyrat-d’Allier, who had previously authorised the antenna’s installation, testified in favour of the farmer.

He said that he feared “a catastrophe on a human level” and that his “concerns” were growing for the 1,500 inhabitants of his village.

Yet, lawyers for the mobile operators affected by the ruling, which as well as Orange also included Free and Bouygues Telecom, said that there was “no scientific evidence” that there is a link between animal health and electromagnetic fields surrounding mobile phone antennas.

It comes as the rollout of 5G, which promises even faster internet speeds than 4G, has prompted controversy in France. Many antennas have been vandalised, and even been blamed (in a now-debunked theory) for the spread of Covid-19.

Yet, French health and safety agency l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire (Anses) has repeatedly said that current scientific studies suggest that 5G antennas “do not present any notable risks to health because they use frequencies very close to previous generations of connectivity”.

**By Hannah Thompson

**Source

One Reply to “French Court Orders 4G Antenna Switch-off Over Cow Health Concerns”

  1. harrrrrie

    There have been studies. The results weren’t good and the studies were deleted, hidden, or filed away in hard to find places.
    Anyone who wants to do quality scientific studies now aren’t given grant money, or authorization or their proposals are quashed.

    I read in a science magazine 25-30 years ago of a study on monkeys. 4 monkeys sat in separate chairs with helmets on their heads that supplied varying frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. One monkey became very timid, passive. Another became very irritated and scared. Another was aggressive, trying desperately to get out of his chair, hitting the chair, screaming. The last became more aware, but otherwise normal.

    I believe none of us will want anything to do with 5G when studies are done again and the results are truthfully given. And to say that the “studies suggest that 5G antennas “do not present any notable risks to health because they use frequencies very close to previous generations of connectivity”, means nothing.

    Are the studies rigorous with strict parameters and repeated by many different institutions? Who decides what information is “suggested” to be acceptable? Who decides “notable risks”? Who is paying for and sponsoring the studies? What bias will be revealed after investigation?

    Who’s to say that “previous generations of connectivity” were harmless? They’re not. We all know they are not. We are bombarded with massive amounts of waves that we are finding are not harmless, everyday, all day. We need to end it, not add more to it.

    Does anyone really believe the mobile, internet, and other companies when they say their waves are harmless?

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