Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ramsay DF | Judge: Gordon Krauss
Reilly, 11, Penn State Law, "Agricultural Laborers: Their Inability to Unionize Under the National Labor Relations Act", Penn State: Masters of Science, JD Law, URL: https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/'file/aglaw/Publications'Library/Agricultural'Laborers.pdf, 2011 + since most recent citation is from then, KR
The NLRA gives workers "freedom of association, self-organization, and designation
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rely on others with experience and knowledge of the NLRA and its intricacies.
Farmer’s yield is nearing an all-time low – government support doesn’t help the most needy and isn’t a long term solution
Farm-Aid, 20, 9/14/20, "Understanding the Economic Crisis Family Farms are Facing", 2Farm Aid works with local, regional and national organizations to promote fair farm policies and grassroots organizations coordinating campaigns designed to defend and bolster family farm-centered agriculture. RL: https://www.farmaid.org/blog/fact-sheet/understanding-economic-crisis-family-farms-are-facing/, KR
EVEN BEFORE COVID-19, FARM FAMILIES HAD NEGATIVE FARM INCOME
Things have
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farmers, as well as other disadvantaged farmers in particular continue to struggle.
The aff is key to increase incentives to farm: it increases wages, sets safe living conditions, AND helps farmers expand products
Reilly, 11, Penn State Law, "Agricultural Laborers: Their Inability to Unionize Under the National Labor Relations Act", Penn State: Masters of Science, JD Law, URL: https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/'file/aglaw/Publications'Library/Agricultural'Laborers.pdf, 2011 + since most recent citation is from then, KR
The rate of pay agricultural laborers earn in return for their work would increase if
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protections they need against agricultural employers as they become more powerful through associations.
1~ Productivity – Wages don’t destroy consumer spending AND create economic value
Jayachandran, 20, 6/18/2020, New York Times, "How a Raise for Workers Can Be a Win for Everybody", Seema Jayachandran is an economics professor at Northwestern University, html, KR
Two new studies show that giving pay raises to low-wage workers is good
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account for at most a small portion of the improvements in patient health.
Katovich, Maia, 18, 1-4/2018, "The relation between labor productivity and wages in Brazil:", Scielo Brazil, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo. URL: https://www.scielo.br/j/neco/a/QR5hfyMfL9c3gwQSGGcRyHD/?lang=en, KR
In Brazil, real wages grew significantly more than did labor productivity between 1996 and
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on positive interplays between market-driven productivity gains and continued institutional interventions.
Wang et. al, 19, "How Farmers Make Investment Decisions: Evidence from a Farmer Survey in China", Sustainability, Shuangjin Wang 1, Yuan Tian 2,*ORCID, Xiaowei Liu 3 and Maggie Foley 4, 1: School of Management, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China, 2: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China, 3: College of Business, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA 52803, USA, 4: Davis Business School, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 32211, USA, URL: https://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=andved=2ahUKEwii17vKue7zAhVdJjQIHUr3D7YQFnoECAUQAQandurl=https3A2F2Fwww.mdpi.com2F2071-10502F122F12F2472Fpdfandusg=AOvVaw1RMvM-hGadn'uoetBxebDi, KR
A variety of research methods were used in previous research to study farmers’ investment adjustment
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from capital input ~33~, and differences in adjustment capabilities ~34~.
2~ Working conditions – squo legislation allows for loss of rights but only unions and the right to strike solve
Apha, 17, 11/7/17, "Improving Working Conditions for U.S. Farmworkers and Food Production Workers", American Public Health Association, The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based professional organization for public health professionals in the United States., URL: https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2018/01/18/improving-working-conditions, KR
More than 4 million workers in the United States are directly involved in tending crops
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silent in the face of exploitation and continuing to work in unsafe conditions.
Increasing working conditions key for increased yields and output
Billikopf, 06, 8/11, UC Berkeley, "Managing People on the Farm", Gregorio Billikopf worked as a Labor Management Farm Advisor with the University of California from 1981 to 2014 (and is now Emeritus). URL: https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7labor/01.htm, KR
To effectively manage a labor force, an employer must be concerned about productivity and
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and (3) feelings toward a particular workplace and a particular union.
Increasing yield prevents food shortages and nutrient deficiencies
Tian et al 21— Tian, Zhixi ~principal investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and former research geneticist at Purdue~, et al. "Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture." The Plant Journal 105.5 (2021): 1165-1178. (AG DebateDrills)
The first straightforward strategy for designing future crops that meet sustainable agriculture requirements is to
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to develop high nutrient and water-use efficiency crops without yield penalty.
Tian et al 21— Tian, Zhixi ~principal investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and former research geneticist at Purdue~, et al. "Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture." The Plant Journal 105.5 (2021): 1165-1178. (AG DebateDrills)
From the perspective of human evolution, each period of rapid population growth, such
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12 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions (Friedlingstein et al., 2010).
Torres 16 ~Phil Biologist, conservationist, science advocate and educator. 2 years based in Amazon rainforest, now exploring science around the world. "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change" http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/.~~
According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the two greatest existential threats to human
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as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival.
The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.
A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.
Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT
There appears to be lot of disagreement in moral philosophy. Whether these many apparent
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be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters)