Observing the Amish from afar
May 19, 2019 07:11:59 #
May 19, 2019 08:19:07 #
I lived in Waldorf a number of years and went to their Saturday market from time to time and agree about their simplicity and dignity. They are a great people.
May 19, 2019 08:24:52 #
Jayemking wrote:
Spent a little time on Southern Maryland. I love the simplicity and dignity of the Amish.
Agree 100%, if everybody in the world acted more closely like the Amish there would certainly be a lot less problems in the world today
May 20, 2019 09:48:05 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
Huey Driver wrote:
Agree 100%, if everybody in the world acted more closely like the Amish there would certainly be a lot less problems in the world today
There's more to the Amish than you might realize.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/survivor-speaks-out-against-amish-rape-culture-ahead_b_581e7b02e4b0334571e09cfd
May 20, 2019 09:51:21 #
Yes, they are a wonderful people but photographing them is difficult. Driving out through Amish country around Lancaster, PA there are many roads where it would be nice to pull over and photograph an Amish farm or a horse drawn carriage but there aren't any shoulders on most of the roads through there and stopping in the middle of the road doesn't work too well.
May 20, 2019 11:24:10 #
The Amish are some of the most egregious and inhumane proprietors of "puppy mills" in the US - massive dog breeding operations that are mired in filth, horrific conditions to which the animals are subjected, forced to breed non-stop virtually from birth, and literally thrown on the scrap heap when their breeding is no longer viable. Crates of animals are stacked on on another, often 5-10 crates high, and all the refuse from the upper crates falls down on the lower ones, and are rarely cleaned. OK, the Amish might be promoted as these cute throwbacks to an earlier time in order to sell some furniture, but their treatment of their animals is grossly obscene and fully criminal.
https://www.thepuppymillproject.org/amish-puppy-mills/
https://www.citizensagainstpuppymills.org/pmamish.php
https://www.thepuppymillproject.org/amish-puppy-mills/
https://www.citizensagainstpuppymills.org/pmamish.php
May 20, 2019 11:30:00 #
I don't below to PPA or this blog to be preached to by you. I posted an image, I don't appreciate you're rant disparaging the Amish people. Get a life.
May 20, 2019 11:49:43 #
Jayemking wrote:
I don't below to PPA or this blog to be preached to by you. I posted an image, I don't appreciate you're rant disparaging the Amish people. Get a life.
What image? And this is the Chit-Chat forum, specifically allowing "non-photography" talk. You opened the door with your comment extolling the wonderful characteristics of the Amish. Maybe if you observed the Amish from a bit closer than "afar" you might see what is really going on. And if you consider the exposition of facts as a "rant" then I can see that any intelligent discourse in this thread is most unlikely. Do have a good day...
May 20, 2019 11:51:14 #
nothing wrong in exposing the truth , i did not think it was that bad !!.used to watch a show on tv about the children s of Amish trying to escape the oppression . what you see in public is nothing but a show , in private another thing .
May 20, 2019 13:00:47 #
Huey Driver wrote:
Agree 100%, if everybody in the world acted more closely like the Amish there would certainly be a lot less problems in the world today
Nice to see peoples who don't try to push their way of life into others.
May 20, 2019 13:04:08 #
tommystrat wrote:
The Amish are some of the most egregious and inhumane proprietors of "puppy mills" in the US - massive dog breeding operations that are mired in filth, horrific conditions to which the animals are subjected, forced to breed non-stop virtually from birth, and literally thrown on the scrap heap when their breeding is no longer viable..
All too true. I admire some of the characteristics of the Amish, but did work with them in Lancaster (PA) for several years. There are some ugly aspects to them, and the "puppy mill" issue is one of a number. Like anything else, all that glitters...and that kind of garbage!
May 20, 2019 13:06:36 #
tommystrat wrote:
The Amish are some of the most egregious and inhum... (show quote)
I read about that and that they kill the females when they are to old to breed. I have no love for the Amish
May 20, 2019 13:12:13 #
May 20, 2019 13:14:22 #
1Feathercrest
Loc: NEPA
Jayemking wrote:
I don't below to PPA or this blog to be preached to by you. I posted an image, I don't appreciate you're rant disparaging the Amish people. Get a life.
Get some lessons in correct grammar.
May 20, 2019 14:37:37 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
The Amish are not he worst folks in the world but suspect that most of us would hate to be Amish. The worst part is you can't go to school and learn stuff and you have to aske the permission of the elders to do anything.
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