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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Activism / Obama: Video Games Better Than Farm Chores

Obama: Video Games Better Than Farm Chores

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

BarnWith the average age of the American farmer now over 50 years old according to the Environmental Protection Agency and the family farm on visible life support, the Obama Administration has moved to put the ailing patient out of his misery with a well aimed bullet right between the eyes.

What better way to ensure the complete and utter death of the family farm in just a few short years than to prohibit the children of farm owning parents from working the land and learning the business alongside Mom and Dad?

A proposed new rule from the  Obama Administration would ban children under 18 from any farm work which involves the “storing, marketing, and transporting of farm product raw materials.”

A Labor Department press release read that “Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

In addition, under this proposed rule, independent groups like 4-H would no longer be allowed to teach and certify safety training to children replacing such locally based youth agricultural programs with a 90 hour federal government training course.

Let’s think about this for a moment.

This rule forbids just about every farm chore I can think of right down to coloring a flyer with paper and crayons to decorate the farm’s booth at the local Farmer’s Market.

So, what are farm kids supposed to do then if they can’t do much of anything around the farm until they are 18 which includes running a small business of their own on the farm to generate some income for college?

I guess they can always play video games or watch TV instead.  Surely there’s a video game out there where children can simulate farm chores without ever leaving the living room couch!

A generation of farm kids raised on sloth instead of a hard work ethic will undoubtedly ensure that few family farms will make it into the next generation’s hands.

With children not able to be mentored by their parents on the farm nor by other local agricultural leaders in their community via 4-H or FFA, loss of interest in agriculture by the next generation of family farmers is virtually guaranteed.

Wait a minute!

Did you hear something?

Oh, nevermind.  It’s just the cha-ching of campaign contributions from Monsanto.

 

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

Source:  Rural Kids, Parents Angry About Labor Department Rule Banning Farm Chores

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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    May 9, 2012 at 3:34 am

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  2. Dianne

    May 7, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    I don’t know if anyone will see this since it’s been almost 2 weeks since this post. However, here’s a link regarding the real reason this was withdrawn:
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Hodges/dave124.htm

    As Mr. Hodges points out, very few people even knew about the existence of this EO. Seems key that the military refused to enforce it!

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  3. julie

    May 3, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    Shame on you. This law is to prevent big ag from killing immigrant children by placing them in dangerous farm jobs. As I understand it, they were completely willing to include exceptions for the .001% that this would effect negatively and unintentionally. Sometimes things are not ALL about you.

    Reply
  4. Susan Andersen Bedwell via Facebook

    Apr 30, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I “liked” this page specifically because of this post. So, so tired of real food blogs/Facebook pages with big-government, authoritarian viewpoints. You rock, Sarah!

    Reply
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