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Calif. bans weed pulling by hand on farms
MSNBC ^
| 23 September 2004
| AP
Posted on 09/23/2004 6:14:50 PM PDT by pickemuphere
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Mixed feelings on this one... Having grown up on a farm, I have sympathy for anyone who has to weed for long periods of time. It is indeed backbreaking labor.
To: pickemuphere
I am curious, what kind of tool can do the job of weeding by hand effectively?
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:18:35 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: pickemuphere
LOL, I thought his was work Americans didn't want to do, so illegals picked up the slack. Now they don't want to do it either? LMAO
Pulling weeds by hand for the last six or seven thousand years was good enough. Now we need to protect day laborers. Honestly, Cal OSHA or whoever came up with this one couldn't be more absurd.
Pulling weeds is the only way to eradicate them. Cutting them with a long handled device will simly allow them to grow back. Using a hoe is much much slower.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:19:16 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
To: rawhide
Maybe Im dumb, but why not spray the weeds?
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:20:03 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Weed spray kills Mexicans. Who's gonna pick the strawberries?
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:23:37 PM PDT
by
montomike
(Gay means happy and carefree not an abomination)
To: pickemuphere
Oh my word...we in NE would be screwed with this law...we walk beans (soy) and kids detassle corn have for decades that's how they make money!
To: pickemuphere
I hope the weed puller dosen't hurt the tender weeds. The enviroment might suffer if it knew the weeds were dying.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:26:44 PM PDT
by
poweqi
To: montomike
Who's gonna pick the strawberries?The same thing that picks the wheat and corn.
MACHINES.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:27:02 PM PDT
by
Lizavetta
(Peace through superior firepower)
To: rawhide
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:27:09 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Men have learned to shoot without missing ...and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig)
To: rdl6989
why not spray the weeds? Few herbicides are that plant specific - if you spray the weeds, you'll often end up killing the plant you're trying to grow.
To: green iguana
Thanks, that is a very good reason. :)
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:28:31 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: All
All farm labor should be done by inmates. No need for illegal aliens to do it.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:28:42 PM PDT
by
JesseJane
( “fake but accurate” ... it’s like saying a body in a pine box is “dead but lifelike.” -- Lileks)
To: pickemuphere
I too grown up on a farm... but it was an orchard.... I can't imagine picking all those weeds.... that is just insane. It is unfortunate CAL OSHA has to stick their corrupted nose into the business of ranchers... I suspect it has less to do with bad backs and more to do with total control of the state.... money, all about money.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:29:27 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Men have learned to shoot without missing ...and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig)
To: poweqi
Hey cant we just eat weeds? I think it would save a lot of this time on this controversy(contrevesy if you are Richard Quest).
The question still remains how to get the weeds from the ground to the dinner table?
Oh, but then we will need a lot of mexicans to pull the weeds so we can eat them.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:31:02 PM PDT
by
BookaT
(My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food!)
To: DoughtyOne
Pulling weeds by hand for the last six or seven thousand years was good enough. Now we need to protect day laborers. Honestly, Cal OSHA or whoever came up with this one couldn't be more absurd.
why are you using a computer to send that message? you should ride many years on a horse to each and every reader to hand deliver your post!
what is really the problem with giving them a tool if it stops them from getting back problems? i assume the tool is a puller, not a cutter.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:31:11 PM PDT
by
sweneop
To: Porterville
I can't imagine picking all those weeds.... that is just insane.
To: rawhide
The Mexicans won't like this Cal-OSHA edict once they find out that some enterprising white guy will invent a MACHINE that will pull the weeds automatically...
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:34:48 PM PDT
by
Siegfried
(This tag is absolutely accurate, but I can't vouch for it's authenticity.)
To: montomike
"Who's gonna pick the strawberries?"
Don't give Cal OSHA ideas, strawberries will have to picked with a long handled tool next.
OSHA could care less that they are all going to be squashed from now on.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:34:49 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: sweneop
From my experience from pulling weeds on the farm, I can tell you that it would be very hard for any device to work as well as hands. You can tell when the weed is about to break when you have tactile contact, not with a metal device. Breaking the weed off is as bad as cutting it. It'll just sprout and grow back.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:34:59 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
To: Lizavetta
I've never seen a strawberry picking machine before.
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posted on
09/23/2004 6:35:08 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
("let them go naked for a while"...Theraaazaaaaa Heinz-Kerry)
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