Posted on 02/20/2014 1:08:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to strengthen 20-year-old standards aimed at protecting farmworkers from toxic pesticides.
The changes proposed Thursday would bar anyone 16 and younger from handling the most toxic pesticides and require no-entry zones around and in treated fields to protect workers from drift and fumes. …
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The government just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Isn’t that supposed to be OSHA’s job?
There seems to be NO problem our own application of common sense and personal risk evaluation is adequate for. Thank goodness we have the feral goobermint on our side! Oh, wait...
I don't let my kids handle pesticides, either. Some of them are pretty rugged. Classic gov't reasoning....
...Create a problem (ban DDT). Solution is worse than the original problem. "Fix" the solution.
Isn’t that supposed to be OSHA’s job?”
It’s amazing that so many farmers have been able to survive and work their farms, putting food on the tables of Americans for so many generations without the help of either OSHA or EPA.
I’m wondering the same thing. Maybe we can get rid of all of the other fed agencies and let the EPA assume the whole mess. Maybe they can do a better job at protecting us from poisoned imported food than the USDA.
Seriously the EPA is one agency that needs to be downsized by at least 50% and the rest reassigned.
When I was fifteen and working for a farmer/ farm supplier I was handling TNT that he sold.
“Isn’t that supposed to be OSHA’s job?”
The thing that saps profit from companies is when the various departments start duplicating services. It’s an empire turf war. Yes, EPA has no place in this. But soon they’ll have the same number of personnel as OSHA and they’ll be competing to find the most violations. Their rules will conflict and it will double compliance costs.
In a company a strong CEO would slap down the empire builders. But we don’t have that leadership in government.
OSHA just eased regulation on small farms just a week or so back.
UN Agenda 21 at work to make food so expensive for the peasants that they have to stop eating.
Most studies indicate that 70-80% of reported pesticide exposures are non work related and occur in the home.
These guys just keep making stuff up in order to further their control of the food supply.
Exposure is rather loosey goosey terminology, that does not mean any illness, injury or death occurred.
Most studies indicate that 70-80% of reported pesticide exposures are non work related and occur in the home.
These guys just keep making stuff up in order to further their control of the food supply.
don’t encourage them to also get involved with their own additional standards.
Federal Regulators are in our private Banks, so why not have Federal Regulators on our private farms?
Hitler was elected by “the people”.
Obama was elected by “the people.”
Hitter had his Gestapo.
Obama has his Regulators.
This is all part of the 80 Year Dictator Cycle.
FORWARD !
There are so few farm works among the squatter class that it’s surprising that the nanny state even bothers. Most are content to sit on their sofas and wait for their freebies to arrive.
“Yes, EPA has no place in this. But soon they’ll have the same number of personnel as OSHA”
The budget for OSHA is half a billion. For EPA it’s 10 billion. EPA has way more inspectors than OSHA.
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