The War on Rural America
Hi Sarra. Good luck with the pending job.
You do not believe in the “high” number of children’s deaths on farms. So let us take a look at the numbers. They appear to confirm that psycheskinner and wilderness may be correct. More than 1 million children live on farms in the US and 27,000 of them, more than 2.7-percent, are killed or injured every year on farms and ranches. Is that not a “high” number?
I imagine CDLs are required to insure that young operators are properly trained and tested before taking control of equipment with the potential to kill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that among all the leading sources of fatal injuries to youth on farms, a quarter involved machinery and another 20 percent involved motor vehicles. {1}
In fact, farms have been proven to be ten times more harmful for children than most other places. Approximately 14 per cent of agricultural injuries resulted in hospitalization compared with 1.4% of non-agricultural injuries. {2}
Those who think children operating tractors or other farm equipment is no big deal probably need to know that of all the machinery related deaths of children in America, 85-percentage are caused by farm machinery. {3}
Some folks choose to believe regulations are imposed because the government wants a tighter reign on the farming and ranching industry. However, the death and injury data reveals some regulations are justified because rural parents are not doing enough on their own to keep their children out of harms way.
I hope ya’all have a great weeken', y’hear.
{1} http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news … study-says
{2} http://www.medpagetoday.com/EmergencyMe … cine/31607
{3} http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/0991.html
Weird - you think starting numerous forum threads from behind a fake user name is a better alternative than actually doing something?
Guess they win then.
Wildman, one thing I don't like about many huge commercial farming operations is how the animals are treated. Our cattle were "free range," with hundreds of acres of pastures, woods, streams, and ponds. They didn't spend their entire lives in crowded feed lots on concrete.
Our cattle are in the photo below. That pasture has a pond at the far end, and the cows use it for cooling off in the summer. Beyond the pond are some shady woods.
I think as a whole, we're losing our connection to the land. Many "city folk" have no idea where food really comes from. They don't know or don't care about the amount of suffering that went into that nicely packaged ground beef at the supermarket. Yes, I'm a meat-eater, but I still care about how meat animals are treated - while they're alive AND when it's time for them to be killed. I think big government farms would largely remove the human aspect from farming. They'd be concerned only with figures and profits.
Free? 18 years of feeding and clothing ain't free.
- DigbyAdamsposted 12 years ago
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- Sarra Garrettposted 12 years ago0
Hi there, Sarra.
Three days ago you declared, “I don't agree about the 'High' number of deaths of children.” Replies to you included astounding numbers with citations you could verify:
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/107055#post2280555
When asked to provide a source for your claims, you replied, “I've lived in Nebraska for 4 years and not one report of a child being killed in a farming accident.”
Here, Sarra, are still more facts with citations for your consideration:
On average, 113 youth less than 20 years of age die annually from farm-related injuries (1995 -2002), with most of these deaths occurring to youth 16-19 years of age (34%). {1}
Of the leading sources of fatal injuries to youth on U.S. farms, 23% percent involved machinery (includes tractors) and 19% involved motor vehicles (includes ATVs).{1}
In 2009, an estimated 16,100 children and adolescents were injured on farms; 3,400 of these injuries were due to farm work. {1}
There were 801 farm-related deaths in Illinois from 1986 to 2011 with 56 occurring to children age 14 or less. {2}
The Farm Fatality Summary compiled by Purdue University shows children died in Indiana in every year from 1998 to 2010. {3}
Agriculture has the second highest fatality rate among youth workers at 21.3 per 100,000 full-time equivalents compared to 3.6 per 100,000 across all industries. {4}
Between 1995 and 2000, 695 youths lost their lives in farm-related fatalities on US farms (55.8 fatalities per 100,000 youth). {4}
Young people are not the only ones at risk. The National Safety Council’s 2009 edition of Injury Facts ranks agriculture as our nation’s most dangerous industry with 28.6 deaths per 100,000 adult workers. {4}
These are verifiable facts, Sarra, whether you believe them or not.
{1} http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/
{2} http://my.extension.uiuc.edu/documents/ … Deaths.pdf
{3} http://tristatehomepage.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=559812
{4} http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/proxy/m … 2011.1.pdf
- Sarra Garrettposted 12 years ago0
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