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Not as a kid.

Teever 4y ago
I have a good friend whonwpuld frequently cut chicken's heads off with an axe while helping out ar a familt farm and another who would frequently go duck hunting with his dad and describes killing the ducks by violently spinning their necks. I've never done any of these things but my friends seem fine to me. The problem with children working in slaughter houses isnt that the children will be exposed to dead animals, its that they'll be exposed to unsafe working conditions and taken advantage of by their employer.
- hunter-gatherer 4y ago
  Your point can really be expounded on a lot. I am one of those people who, as a kid, hunted various types of game. I also worked a summer as a 17 year old at ritewood egg in southern idaho. Although I wasn't butchering animals, the mental toll of watching where the 2-dollar-a-dozen eggs came from was more noticeable than hanging and gutting a deer in the woods. I have no issues with children (14-18) having jobs, but there are industries we should strive as a society to keep them from. I wouldn't want kids working in animal food production for the same reasons I wouldn't want them in coal mines. It is important to consoder that those _reasons_ to start to dissipate as one matures and gets older and able to hold their own. As a society we really should be striving to give kids the best opportunities to engage in constructive play and school before jobs in my opinion. Not that my opinion matters at all though...
- pixl97 4y ago
  Really it's the repetitive motion injuries that are by far the most dangerous here in this specific industry. Especially in people that are still developing and are not fully grown. The industry will gladly burn them up and then farm off their injuries to socialized healthcare for the rest of their lives. And you're completely correct. There are reasons why we don't let kids make a huge number of different contracts. They don't have the knowledge to know when they are being exploited.

Not as a kid.

I have a good friend whonwpuld frequently cut chicken's heads off with an axe while helping out ar a familt farm and another who would frequently go duck hunting with his dad and describes killing the ducks by violently spinning their necks. I've never done any of these things but my friends seem fine to me. The problem with children working in slaughter houses isnt that the children will be exposed to dead animals, its that they'll be exposed to unsafe working conditions and taken advantage of by their employer.

hunter-gatherer 4y ago
Your point can really be expounded on a lot. I am one of those people who, as a kid, hunted various types of game. I also worked a summer as a 17 year old at ritewood egg in southern idaho. Although I wasn't butchering animals, the mental toll of watching where the 2-dollar-a-dozen eggs came from was more noticeable than hanging and gutting a deer in the woods. I have no issues with children (14-18) having jobs, but there are industries we should strive as a society to keep them from. I wouldn't want kids working in animal food production for the same reasons I wouldn't want them in coal mines. It is important to consoder that those _reasons_ to start to dissipate as one matures and gets older and able to hold their own. As a society we really should be striving to give kids the best opportunities to engage in constructive play and school before jobs in my opinion. Not that my opinion matters at all though...
pixl97 4y ago
Really it's the repetitive motion injuries that are by far the most dangerous here in this specific industry. Especially in people that are still developing and are not fully grown. The industry will gladly burn them up and then farm off their injuries to socialized healthcare for the rest of their lives. And you're completely correct. There are reasons why we don't let kids make a huge number of different contracts. They don't have the knowledge to know when they are being exploited.