Summit County farmers and ranchers, like others across the nation, aren't looking forward to possible changes of child labor laws, which they believe could heavily impact the culture of agriculture in the United States. And growing debate has sparked a standoff between rural and urban, with rural parties believing changes attack that lifestyle.
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed changes to the law last fall, which would be the first since the law was created more than 40 years ago. The problem farming groups and individual farmers have with the changes is not an increased focus on child safety, but that the new rules would affect children's ability to earn money, work for their families and learn life lessons while training to work in agriculture.
"This is more of an assault on my culture than anything that's going to solve a problem," said East Summit County rancher and father or four Jeff Young. "I just can't imagine that riding a horse that's following a herd of cattle is any more dangerous than skiing or playing football."
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I have been following this for a while now.
ReplyDeleteThe reason for the change is to do away with the self production of food, ie-small farmers and those who produce food for their own families.
On the other end is that this will lock in the IOU's for campaign contributions from corp ag.
There have been a record number of foreign countries buying up US crop production land. Most of these are foreign govt back corp ag businesses. The food produced will be shipped off to these countries and will not be used to feed US citizens & livestock.
All of the major market related special interest groups (Farm Bureau, Texas Cattle Assoc, etc) are fighting this tooth and nail.
If it comes down to it, I am already an outlaw, what's one more charge.
Disruption of gov supply chains is very easy and so is the redistribution of staples to sovereign citizens.
Many of the families who were already mostly self-sufficient farmers in the South really didn't have much hardship in the Depression.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
ReplyDeleteThose that were the hardest hit were the ones in the urban/metro area.
All the pictures of the bone poor families out in the country are actually ones of city folks trying to find some work/food.
While times for us would have it's hardships, we will be able to grow/hunt/trap our food.
But this change of the cild labor law is just another loop being wrapped in the hang man's rope. We are almost to the required 13 wraps.
But this change of the cild labor law is just another loop being wrapped in the hang man's rope.
ReplyDeleteAll traitors to the Constitution.