It's something that was happening at least 20 years ago as well. Though specifically for pig farms' smell: regulations of how to deal with the smell has long existed and quite often if there's complaints they're not using the filtration system because it's expensive to maintain.

I live within 200m of a pig farm and I've never smelled it itself.

No, it existed long before covid. There is towns which made a contract for people moving there, which deny them the right to file against the church's bells noises or cow's moo by example.

Its been happening for a very long time. Usually its farms, but it applies to anything loud and/or smelly. Racetracks and gun ranges are good examples.

In the article, which was a daunting 200 words, it talks about cases from 2016 and 2019.

… flip the script dude… sounds like you’re afraid of city people

They're like the people in Brave New World, taught that everything "out there" is bad, dangerous, deadly.

Yeah not in my experience. Who told you that?

City people….isolated? That’s an interesting take lmao.