The bill does not prohibit minors from performing all types of work in the poultry and fishing industries and in agriculture. The bill only seeks to protect teenagers from performing dangerous processing activities. Another problem this legislation seeks to correct is the terrible exploitation of children under age 14 who work as migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Children ages 12. 10. 8. and even 6 years old are working with hazardous pesticides and/or performing backbreaking stoop labor in the fields. These children must be protected. Let me make clear that I fully understand the political. social. and economic reasons for providing an exemption from child labor laws for children working on family farms. Our bill will not affect that existing exemption in any way. However. these reasons do not apply to children outside the family farm. who are under age 14 and work as migrant and seasonal farmworkers. These children come from a population that. regrettably. has been among our most vulnerable and most exploited in recent decades. They deserve the basic protections guaranteed under the Fair Labor Standards Act.