The newcomers state "We understand that we live in the countryside and that there is a long tradition of cows, sheep and goats in the region". Do you? It doesn’t appear so, for while “The cock has been, for centuries, a natural alarm clock”, & the cowbell serves to track cow locations blocked from view by the mountainous terrain, the “movement of...livestock between fixed...pastures...is a traditional practice that has shaped much of the landscape in the Alps...Evidence survives of a transhumance...economy in the Alps dating to the later Neolithic period (c. 3000 BCE)...with evidence for pastures above the treeline reported for the Bronze Age (17th to 11th centuries BCE) in the Northern Limestone Alps. The...system in the Alps has remained virtually unchanged since at least the High Middle Ages...Along the edge of the Alps, starting around 1300 in west and central Switzerland and a little later in eastern Switzerland, cattle production became the primary agricultural activity”.
So if the “urbanites seek the ’tranquility’ of the countryside, and are ready to do anything to obtain and preserve it [& which] ’tranquility’, for them, means total silence”, then why on Earth, in an act of exceptional stupidity, would they move here - are they idiots?
The newcomers further state “‘There are many fields higher up where the cows could graze,’ they assure”. Oh Really? You presume to tell these historically millennially-experienced herders their business? For these hard-working folks who already provide your cheese and eggs, is there anything else they can do for you? - these folk who report “the days are long and the work strenuous...Daily life on the Alp is certainly no picnic. It starts early at 5am with milking, herding the cattle out onto the pasture, feeding calves, spreading straw, taking manure out to the pasture, making cheese, bringing the cattle home, milking and cleaning out the barn. It’s usually not time to turn in before 9pm”, & who further report, "Again in Bern already they are talking about cutting subsidies for ‘short season’ Alps like the Engstligen. They should appreciate what we are doing: maintaining and caring for the countryside, which benefits the whole country. Without the herding folk on the Alp, after a few years the paths would be overgrown, the high plateau would be wild, and the tourists would stay away”, as well as other herders in the pastures who additionally report “It costs us between 5 and 8,000 euros to clear our bushes...the cows graze...clearing the alpine pastures in a more ecological and...more economical way...Locally, everyone understands that the survival of the rural world and its pastoral practices depend on it...It is probably a shame to leave this field to this one party, because behind it also amounts to risking to lose interest in rural sustainability” - is there really anything more these folks can do to escalate your tranquility?
Recently emerged is an an alleged photo of the agitants.