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A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.

Gil Dobie wrote:Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

So much for the small family farm, RIP

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
http://www.washingtontimes.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ^ | 02-13-2012 | By Stephen Dinan

The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he'll shut his farm down altogether.

The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's supporters, some of whom have been buying from him for six years and who say the government is interfering with their parental rights to feed their children. But the Food and Drug Administration, which launched a full investigation complete with a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and a straw-purchase sting operation against Mr. Allgyer's Rainbow Acres Farm, near Lancaster, said unpasteurized milk is unsafe and said it was exercising its due authority to stop its sale from one state to another.

Adding to Mr. Allgyer's troubles, Judge Lawrence F. Stengel said if he is found to violate the law again he will have to pay the FDA's costs for investigating and prosecuting him.
His customers are wary of talking publicly, fearing the FDA will come after them.

"I can't believe in 2012 the federal government is raiding Amish farmers at gunpoint all over a basic human right to eat natural food," said one, who asked not to be named but who got weekly shipments of eggs, milk, honey and butter from Rainbow Acres. "In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank."




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AZGrizFan wrote:http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural ... rm-chores/

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.

The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.

Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.

Oh, and the kicker?? This proposal, if enacted, is expected to generate thousands of new "jobs" within the Department of Labor as new investigators would be required to ensure farms are complying with this regulation.

Donks, I hope you're happy. The Nanny State is almost complete.

God, you and your fiends here are stupid fvcks.

Do you azzholes know that farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in America? Have you idiots looked into the dangers of all the things named in the proposed regulations? Did you even ask why, first, you idiots? Never mind that The Daily Caller is a Tucker Carlson Conk jack towel...... Notice, too how they never addressed WHY these reg's are proposed - SAFETY!!! No, the Conk rag presents it as big government oppression



Epic, epic, epic fail, Z........even for you! Research shit before you post, you buffoon.

grizzaholic wrote:AZ...The donks will blame us no doubt about it.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

grizzaholic wrote:AZ...The donks will blame us no doubt about it.

Finish your GED, then join the big boys for these discussions next year, little one.

grizzaholic wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Finish your GED, then join the big boys for these discussions next year, little one.

Stick with one job for more than 8 months.

Cluck U wrote:Up next:

Obama will get the Department of Labor to go after urban kids who sell drugs...after all, selling drugs is a dangerous profession.

Cap'n Cat will be on here to supply relevant statistics.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

grizzaholic wrote:
Stick with one job for more than 8 months.

Man, El Nino, I could work three months out of every year and still make money than your lame-ass Verizon store sales ass. Worry about getting up on these issues or stay in the Lounge, Slappy.

grizzaholic wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:
Man, El Nino, I could work three months out of every year and still make money than your lame-ass Verizon store sales ass. Worry about getting up on these issues or stay in the Lounge, Slappy.

Yeah.. I don't know nothin' about farming. YUP. Ya got me.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Cluck U wrote:Up next:

Obama will get the Department of Labor to go after urban kids who sell drugs...after all, selling drugs is a dangerous profession.

Cap'n Cat will be on here to supply relevant statistics.

Another Conk who doesn't care about farm kids and knee jerks to Z's Rush shit.

Cluck U wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:
Another Conk who doesn't care about farm kids and knee jerks to Z's Rush shit.

I was a farm kid...worked my grandfather's farm each summer.

You, on the other hand, sit on the couch while inhaling other people's products (at a Conkafied alarming rate that could easily feed several low-income families) and then regularly belch out noxious plumes of gas and useless hot air.

blueballs wrote:This is yet another bureaucratic boondoggle designed by people who've never really worked a day in their lives to:

a) transfer wealth and power from the individual to the government
b) put family sized small business out of business and give an unfair advantage to large corporations (kinda like what's happened in my industry)
c) pay back corporate political donors
d) create more jobs for government union employees (who vote overwhelmingly democratic)

Obama and his minions would shit their pants if they saw the chores and work I had to do as a kid on my dad's 700+ head hog farm, cemetary, and 100+ head hunting dog kennels. I hated it at the time but now thank God for it every day becasue it was pitching in to support the family and it gave me a backbone and a great work ethic.

Obama will get the Department of Labor to go after urban kids who sell drugs...after all, selling drugs is a dangerous profession.

Seahawks08 wrote:

Obama will get the Department of Labor to go after urban kids who sell drugs...after all, selling drugs is a dangerous profession.

yeah...we have the police and the dea for that already...

Cap'n Cat wrote: The three primary agents responsible for deaths and injuries to children on the farm are: tractors, farm machinery, and livestock. It is important to realize that children on farms may be exposed to other situations capable of producing health hazards in the future. Some of these exposures are: noise, vibration, pesticides, dangerous gasses, and airborne irritants."

AZGrizFan wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote: The three primary agents responsible for deaths and injuries to children on the farm are: tractors, farm machinery, and livestock. It is important to realize that children on farms may be exposed to other situations capable of producing health hazards in the future. Some of these exposures are: noise, vibration, pesticides, dangerous gasses, and airborne irritants."

Maybe we should outlaw tractors, noise, machinery, livestock vibration and air. That would make them much more safe.