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[...] "I can see from my tractor that they are all skin and bones. It's enough to make you cry." On the other side of the small road that winds along his property, a short distance from the town of Mazeyrat-d'Allier, in the Haute-Loire department, Frédéric Salgues can spot what he considers to be the cause of his cows' problems, less than 300 meters away: a cell phone tower commissioned by Orange on June 28, 2021.
[...] On May 23, the administrative court of Clermont-Ferrand ordered the 4G antenna's cessation of operation for a period of two months.
This measure, unprecedented in France, should become effective within three months. The objective is to carry out an expert assessment in order to "establish a potential causal link between the behavior of the cattle and this antenna." The administrative court highlights "a significant drop in the quality and quantity of milk produced, a serious disruption in the behavior of the herd and its voluntary denutrition and abnormally high deaths.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Friday June 17 2022, @08:38PM
What? You mean correlation is not causation? (I'm being very sarcastic for those who don't perceive the sarcasm!)
Years ago I shared an office with a guy who was very intelligent and witty. One of his phrases was: "never underestimate the power of coincidence". I'm still processing that one. :)
Bottom line, of course, is that a real study needs to be done. But in time they might get enough data to draw reasonable conclusions. For instance, if the cows recover and do well for months, and then they turn the 4G back on and the cows go downhill again, we can't say for certain yet, but that's a much stronger possible causation.
But also, you'd think we'd have heard of this problem in other places, as was commented above, so we really don't know (yet?).