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hootinholler

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9. Feed lots and stockyards

Reply to Freddie Stubbs (Original post)

Fri Apr 27, 2012, 10:16 AM

Apr 2012

Are not family farming operations. They are industrial.

I do know many family farms with grain bins, but I suspect the ones referenced by the bill are more elevator in scale.

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Labor Department backs off new limits on child labor on farms [View all] Freddie Stubbs Apr 2012 OP

Glad to see this was dropped raps Apr 2012 #1

So let the children continue to die and be dismembered so factory farms can make a few bucks. fasttense Apr 2012 #18

People around here have been going nuts over this Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #2

Smart of them. bluedigger Apr 2012 #3

Yet it didn't Horse with no Name Apr 2012 #8

Families share labor. bluedigger Apr 2012 #14

So now we're defending child labor for political expediency? bread_and_roses Apr 2012 #4

just. speechless. AlbertCat Apr 2012 #7

Children can work raps Apr 2012 #12

Why do you say that a 'protect the children bill' is misdirected? Demit Apr 2012 #15

Everything is dangerous raps Apr 2012 #16

Fellow DU posters; greiner3 Apr 2012 #5

Which often happens in family farming hootinholler Apr 2012 #11

Two 14 year olds die in electrocution accident in Illinois cornfield ( Monsanto Corp. ) Omaha Steve Apr 2012 #6

Rest in peace, Jade and Hannah colorado_ufo Apr 2012 #13

Feed lots and stockyards hootinholler Apr 2012 #9

I'm of two minds on the subject tech3149 Apr 2012 #10

There is also the "We've always done it that way" mentality, which is deeply, deeply ingrained. colorado_ufo Apr 2012 #17