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UNBELIEVABLE
Canada is fining the Amish community $300.000 as they failed to download the covid app.
Can't make it up.
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6:49 AM · Sep 26, 2024
The poor amish, I'd love to sit down and talk with some of them about the state of the world today, and see how much they are aware of, and what their perspective is on how much we have fallen.
When I was an ag specialist in the Upper Midwest and Midwest, they were among the biggest users, per acre, of crop chemicals of any group I worked with.
Vicious to their animals and children too.
So sick of this ridiculous worship of the Amish.
I have personally known the Amish for about 20 years. I have spent the night in their homes, ate at their tables, been welcomed into their bedroom to see their hours old babies. I've seen them pay for the hospital bills of members of their community. They have worked on my home, retaining walls, roofing, deck and windows. They are hard working, smart (an eighth grade education in their schools is better than HS public schools and in some cases college) and polite.
Don't get me wrong the Amish can have as much disfunction as anyone else in society. I've seen them smoke cigarettes, have hidden cell phones and radios, and saw what they do when a teen runs away from home. I've never seen them beat a woman nor a child. In fact I was given a dog that had deformed hind quarters because they didn't want to put it down but wanted it to have a loving home.
Sorry, I can't speak to the use of chemicals but I can testify that the ones I know wouldn't use any more than any other farmer in the area.
Please don't knock anyone until they are in your community and you know them as neighbors rather than a business venture.
They were my community, they were neighbors, they were not a business venture.
So don't knock my experience and seek to replace it with yours.
Well than we have found who is the problem have we not?
I watch rescue horse videos on YouTube and there are often perfectly good horses bought at kill auctions that come from the Amish.
I heard the Amish in Lancaster PA - near me - are some of the biggest drug dealers around.
Several friends/relatives who were animal welfare officers and shelter workers, in three different areas of the country, referred to experiences with Amish puppy mills and other animal breeding operations that were Third World tier. One of them spoke of something similar to what you say.
For many years in the '00s and before there was a massive nitrogenated dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay that was traced back to riparian pollution from Lancaster County Amish farms. Those farmers refused to fence their livestock out of riparian zones, and also were heavy users of N crop additives. They were not held to the same standards as other farmers, and any effort to remedy the situation were met with the cultic worship of their brand/meme that so often comes up in these discussions.
I worked at a farm for several years (not my operation) that bought seed from Amish farmers in MN. What I saw on that operation was truly disturbing (animals, children, crop practices).
In Ohio and Pennsylvania there were widespread concerns about spousal and child abuse (and incest) among Amish, but these were covered up effectively.
The activities of young Amish men during "rumspringa" is another topic not often broached.
I rebuke and revile the entire plugged-ear LA LA LA LA operation around "Amish." People are people and need to be regarded and held accountable for what they do, not some crunchy fluffy image they project. I don't do idolatry.