"In the years when our family lived on a dairy," writes SR columnist Shawn Vestal, "there were times it felt like we were living in a giant cattle toilet. Thoughts of manure came wafting to me again this week, as farm groups and the rural right took up arms against proposed new child-labor rules for farms – rules that the Obama administration withdrew Thursday under intense pressure. Opponents characterized the proposal as the latest example of anti-American, despotic overreach, and repeatedly misstated what they would have done, asserting that kids would no longer be allowed to work on their family’s farms, that kids would be 'banned' from farm work, and so on." Full column here.

Question: Have you ever worked in or around a lot of manure?