On 21 Aug 2003 06:56:45 GMT, Brian Sandle
wrote:

In sci.agriculture wrote:
On a cursory scan I can see nothing
(unfortunately, there's someone called Butcher, BT, who seems to have
done a lot of work on byssinosis and cotton, but not as far as I can
see on Bt).

Who is going to bother to research it?

Who is bothering with the lungs of child outworkers helping their parents
to get paid for their contracts?

Please explain this further [child outworkers helping their parents
etc]

Linkname: Jan 2001, Child labour in Australian garment industry
URL: http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/00-01hwaus.htm
size: 105 lines

I think I have posted in the past refs to lists of companies who do or
don't adhere to a code since then.

I suppose some famrers will have tales to tell about child labour on
farms. Gordon has related stuff to us about the old days.

A problem with some farms is the back-breaking work.

My oh picked cotton along with his siblings and parents as long as he
can remember in the hot Texas sun every summer.
Picking cotton was a financial necessity for the family and for the
many other families who also did it.
They got 5c a pound - and if you have handled cotton bolls you know
light it is.

Yeah, it beat the shit out of their hands and they had achy backs
every night but years later, and his Dad is nearing 90, none have
suffered any disability - they all have very good backs for their age.

Last Thursday we stopped and watched the mechanical pickers not far
from us as they scooped up what is expected to be a bumper new
season's crop and not due to any spraying.

There is room for ingenious inventors of hand-tools.
My back was bad when I was young, but I wasn't doing bend over work.

From what?
Were you taken to a doctor by your parent/s/caregiver/s?
If so, what was the diagnosis and what treatment/s were recommended?
If not taken to a doctor, is there any particular reason why you
weren't?

As a young adult or an adult, have you sought any advice et al?

Now I am experimenting with not eating grain, even rice, and my lower back is much better.

Again, have you been diagnosed with any condition?


In a homogeneous society one way may suit everyone, but it may be cruel
when people are different. For some the chemicals are the trouble, and
they can't read the labels very functionally.

Then who is to know when nettles start growing in a Roundup Ready soy,
corn, or cotton field, and Roundup lets them grow, and someone says you'll
have to get Pursuit and mix it. It works but do they know the extra
cautions? The company wants to make money, and may not be the best
advisor. Who else is there?

Cath