I attended the conference "the Amish in America" at Elizabethtown college June 7-9 2007. At a session on agricultural safety, the presenter used a slide show with graphs showing statistics on injuries and fatalities of plain community children. Right at the moment a graph showed that, the disproportionate amount of those injuries are work related, the presenter told us how he wishes he could get his children to do more work. His entire presentation was a flippant dismissal of the idea that the government should be involved in farm safety at all.
I mentioned the aggravating circumstances that leave plain community children increasingly at risk, during the response period. He didn't respond to my question, but instead prattled on about something irrelevant. I confronted him afterwards in the hall, and the first thing he said to me was, "you're the guy that asked the embarrassing question".
What the hell is the purpose of an institution of higher learning? To give meat heads like this guy a platform to spout his propaganda?
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