From PPI:

PPI | Trade Fact of the Week | October 29, 2003 Over 100,000 American Children Work in Agribusiness The Numbers: Number of U.S. states exempting agriculture from child labor laws: 16 What They Mean: A 1998 report by the General Accounting Office, echoed by more recent NGO reporting, has a surprising finding: "Current laws allow children to work in agriculture at younger ages, for longer hours, and in more dangerous occupations than children working in other industries... children working in agriculture are more likely to have severe work-related injuries and work-related deaths than children working other industries. Furthermore, they are less likely to be enrolled in school and less likely to be graduated from high school than other children." The report goes on to say that 16 states have no legal minimum age for agriculture; that few states effectively enforce those child labor laws that do apply to farmworkers; and that many children working on farms face health and safety risks from heavy machinery, pesticide use, and long sun hours, to name a few.

It's good to hear that there are some kids who aren't sitting on their expanding butts all day long drinking Slurpees and playing video games or watching MTV. Oh, wait, we're supposed to be outraged by this? Something tells me that the children in third world countries churning out huge quantities of consumables at 50-cents a day for Wal-Mart customers may have it a wee bit worse.