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Monday, December 19, 2011

American Thinker

The Department of Labor vs. America's Farm Kids

By Josiah Cantrall

America was built by farmers, and to this day, farming is a generational industry for many. So why are federal agencies, led by President Obama appointees, intent on taking steps that will undermine and ultimately destroy our nation's agricultural heartland? ...

...Under new standards being advocated by the Labor Department, youths under the age of eighteen would be prohibited from working in hay lofts, giving shots, caring for baby animals, and being in the vicinity of animals whose behavior may be "unpredictable." For the estimated 1.3 million youths living or working on farms, this means no longer being able to perform routine chores if the farm is set up as a corporation or a business partnership. Today, the vast majority of family farms are legally structured in this manner. ...

This may sound conspiratorial, but this is nothing more than large corporate farms working through the Obama administration to eliminate the competition from the family farm!


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