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  1. Feb 2016
    1. In its most extreme forms, child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses

      child labor causes so much problems in a child life.

    2. Across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, that prevents them from getting education and is harmful to  their physical, mental, or social development.

      all around the work their are children that do dangerous work and hard work for long hours.

    1. Awareness of child labor abuses in West Africa, where the Ivory Coast and Ghana produce nearly three-quarters of the global cocoa supply, has increased in recent years—along with global demand for chocolate. According to a report published Thursday by Tulane University, the use of child labor has increased in West Africa as well. Researchers counted 2.1 million child laborers working in cocoa production in both countries, an increase of 21 percent over five years.

      West Africa has a huge about of child laboring going on and is know for child labor abuse.

    2. Children between five and 11 cannot work at all under International Labor Organization standards; children between 12 and 14 can do up to 14 hours of light work a week; the maximum number of hours climbs to 43 per week for kids between 15 and 17.

      a chid has to be certain age to be cable of doing a certain amount of work work a certain amount of hours.

    1. Despite a steady decline in child labour, progress is far too slow

      even though child labor is decreasing the progress is too slow.

    2. Millions of children around the world are trapped in child labour,

      so many children don't have a choice to pick if they want to work or not. they just have to work because their trap in child labor.

    1. Africa is also the region with the highest incidence of children working, with one in four children engaged in child labour.

      Africa has the largest rate of child laboring still going on.

    2. The new report (Note 1) says that there was a reduction of just 3 per cent in child labour in the four-year period covered by the global estimates.

      child labor is reducing as time goes.

    1. . Of these children, 5.7 million are forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery, 1.8 million are forced into prostitution or pornography and 600,000 are engaged in other illicit activities. 

      a huge amount of these children that work are forced into early debt.

    2. children who work are frequent victims of maltreatment, physical and psychological violence or abuse by supervisors, co-workers and outsiders.

      children who works are most likely effect in so many different ways and have to face obstacles.

    3. Worldwide, there are an estimated 246 million children engaged in child labour.

      Theirs a hug amount of children involved in child labor.

    1. Poverty emerges as the most compelling reason why children work.

      poverty is the big reason why children ends up having to work or want to work.

    2. There are many forms of child labour worldwide.

      so many different child labor are worldwide that is in different forms.

    3. Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination.

      any job that is consider child labor should be eliminated because not all work is consider child labor.

    4. It is work that children should not be doing because they are too young to work,

      a child should not be able to work at a young age.

    1. They are also at a higher risk for illnesses such as respiratory illnesses and are exposed to harmful chemicals that can also affect their physical development.

      child labor can cause or lead a child to different illness.

    2. Working can also impact a child’s social development because the child spends time doing labor instead of with peers in social play, learning how to interact properly.

      children that work all the time it can have a big impact on their social life, because they won't have time to socialize with others.

    3. young children who work, rather than learn, will continue working through the rest of their lives without an opportunity to increase their standing in life.

      children that works are missing and not attending school are missing out on oppertunity to become successful.

    4. There are children working full-time who do not attend school at all, which prevents them from developing necessary cognitive skills

      child labor can cause kids to not attend school at all, because their working full time. this means the child is missing out on developing important skills.

    5. child labor is that it interrupts a child’s education and cognitive development.

      child labor can have big impact on their life, such as their education and their cognitive development.

    6. While there are many physical dangers related to child labor

      child labor is very dangerous.

    1. But in a nation of 1.2 billion people, 400 million of them very poor, these numbers seem suspiciously low.

      Its a huge number of very poor people, which lead to child labor.

    2. To fight this scourge, India passed landmark legislation in 2009 guaranteeing free, compulsory primary education.

      india had to go through a whole lot of things to get child labor to reduce, such as passing the legislation in 2009. This guaranteed free, compulsory primary education for children that was forced to to work.

    3. India has made encouraging progress in recent years on reducing the number of children forced to work instead of pursuing their education.

      Child labor have decrease for children that don't have a choice to work or to get their education.

    4. Its argument was that children’s wages are essential to the survival of poor families and that working children acquire job skills.

      Very poor families allow their child to work so they can also help support the their family.

  2. Jan 2016
    1. Because the mind is prone to distorting or rejecting scientific information in favour of more intuitive beliefs, simply transmitting the facts will not necessarily persuade people of the safety, or benefits, of GMOs, especially if people have been subjected to emotive, anti-GMO propaganda.

      the mind is meant to reject anything that don't belong.

    2. . However, DNA is DNA, whatever its source. The impact of disgust explains why people feel more averse towards GM food than other GM applications, such as GM medicine.

      different DNA has different reaction to the GM product.

    3. In the paper, we identify several intuitions that may affect people’s perception of GMOs.

      many people are affected by GMOs.

    1. Slaughterhouse cameras might seem unfair to the operators. The images might still appeal to emotion and prompt visceral revulsion. Fair enough. But we are not going to decide how we should treat animals through cold reason alone, and certainly not if their treatment is invisible.

      we are not going to change the way we treat our animals because of how other people emotions or thoughts.

    2. Slaughterhouses and confined-feeding operations can be dangerous places. Although the industry surely exaggerates the risk, guerrilla actions are not the safest or best way to spur reflection on how we treat animals.

      the slaughterhouse is a dangerous place to work but that should mean that the safety of animals are not in good hands.

    3. The most humane way of slaughtering an animal, or dealing with a sick one, may look pretty horrible. But so does open-heart surgery.

      killing animals looks really bad but surgery's also looks bad too.

    1. With intensive care, the death rate for hemolytic uremic syndrome is 3%-5%.

      Children's who are under five years old die from those diseases because there immune system is weak and not fully developed.

    2. E. coli is a type of fecal coliform bacteria commonly found in the intestines of animals and humans. E. coli is short for Escherichia coli.

      E.coli is a bacteria that is found in animals and human, human eat animals which is why its found in humans as well.

    3.  E. coli O157:H7 was first recognized as a cause of illness during an outbreak in 1982 traced to contaminated hamburgers. Since then, most infections are believed to have come from eating undercooked ground beef.

      E.colie was first found in meat before found in another substance or thing.

  3. Dec 2015
    1. Schools are under more financial pressure than ever before, thanks in part to the new school lunch nutrition standards that hit the ground last year, observes Margo Wootan, head of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Although schools can now get six cents more per lunch to help cover the cost of more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to meet new requirements, the increase doesn’t cover all the changes, she notes.

      Financial pressure is the reasons why school nutrition have made a huge change.

    2. But as schools across the country grapple with tight budgets, some are changing their minds and accepting the lower-price alternative product that brings down the price of the food they serve.

      Schools don't have enough money to get better product , so they cant complain about the ones they can afford.