GOP Senator: We Need ‘Child Labor’ To Fight Obesity Epidemic
At a recent town hall in Osage, Iowa, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) responded to a question about the Labor Departments stricter limits on child labor by claiming that they could exacerbate the child obesity epidemic by making kids less active:
This farm bill will greatly affect our FFA and 4-H programs, said Grassley. Kids wont be able to help on farms not owned by their parents.
Its interesting that this child labor bill goes against Michelle Obamas anti-obesity initiative, said Grassley. How can kids be active if they are limited by this law?
Grassley represents a farm state that both relies on child labor and contributes to the national obesity epidemic through its production of corn products like high-fructose corn syrup. Iowa farmers benefit from billions of dollars in corn subsidies that allow them to put a glut of cheap, unhealthy foods on the market.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/17/405438/gop-senator-says-child-labor-needed-to-fight-obesity-how-can-kids-be-active-if-they-are-limited-by-the-law/
Drale
(7,932 posts)anyone who acts like a child, who is not a child, should be put to work doing hard labor.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Because Newt, and a LOT of Republicans would be the perfect case study for this.
la la
(1,855 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)we all should be sitting at home on our asses watching, "Days of Our Lives".
a simple pattern
(608 posts)How much of it is provided by kids who are incarcerated?
I think this might be worth looking into.
alp227
(32,075 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,168 posts)Dry up, Grassley. There's plenty of ways for kids to get exercise. You rethugs all want to enslave children and destroy childhood, the one safe place humans have from you fucks.
burrowowl
(17,655 posts)or just exercise at recess time, like it used to be.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....on farms are to be the new slaves of the twenty-first century?
"How can kids be active if they are limited by this law?"
....simple, as soon as you and your slimy corporate friends start paying your fair share of taxes, schools might have the resources to reinstate or create nutrition, gym and/or exercise classes on a daily basis for our children....
....grassy, there's no need to subject our children to your Republican third-world slave-labor standards....
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)they don't need to be your slaves.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Senator, your time is gone, time to go out to pasture
I can't take you seriously, ever.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,429 posts)Truth be told I never had weight issues as a child. One's more likely to have them in adulthood when one's metabolism slows down.
More ignorance from a guy who pushed the Obamacare death panels bullshit.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Grassley is a great big corn fed sack of federal subsidy swilling shit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38312193/ns/dateline_nbc/t/america-now-children-harvest/
AlecBGreen
(3,874 posts)some laws DO need to be changed. I work on a farm. I have a friend (14) who wants to come help out to earn some extra cash. By law he cannot handle any machinery or power tools, despite the fact that he is a capable young man. He cant drive the truck while I pitch in hay. He cant use a weedwhacker. He cant use a cordless drill. I know his capabilities, he knows his capabilities, and his parents know and trust me. Why should the government have the ability to determine what he and I can and cannot do on the farm?
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)They are a bunch of cruel sick bastards.