I'll only point out one quote from this citation: "An estimated 300 children die each year in farming accidents."
mom'sfolly :
http://hillsborofreepress.com/agriculture-news/farm-accidents-still-a-threat-for-children.html
"Though Marion County hasnt had any child farm fatality accidents in recent years, according to Steve Smith, Marion County Emergency Management director, such accidents do happen too painfully often, and they have happened near here.
Kansas has recorded one child fatality this year in Barton County, where a 7-year-old boy dismounted from a tractor to open a gate into a cattle feeding pen.
The boy apparently misjudged the speed and direction of the tractor once it was in the pen, according to authorities, and was run over.
From these sites, and others, it looks like about 300 kids die in farming accidents each year, and about 24,000 are seriously injured."
The discerning reader will note that none of these studies say anything about the "big factory farms" that the new legislation. as some would have us believe is purported to protect young farm workers from.
mom'sfolly :
Just the numbers, for those who asked.
My first jobs were working on a farm. I suffered one injury, and a friend suffered another. Neither were serious, but both could have been. I was 12, my friend about 14. I fell off a loaded hay wagon on the way from the field to the barn. I had some serious road rash on my face, and a concussion. My friend put a pitch fork through her foot; one tine, all the way through.
Was this on a big factory farm? Even if it was is that any reason to ban children from working on a farm and learning the trade?
