They'll even do it with puppies and kittens. Mass produce them in horrible conditions in their private communities then bring them into town and act like it was just a family pet that had a litter.
Yup, and the USDA told them to do it! The government promoted production dog breeding to farmers after WW2 as a “failure-proof” business after a number of disastrous crop failures in the midwestern US.
There was a pet store in my town that sold puppies from an Amish mill. They would put the breeder's name on the info tag for each puppy, and most of them had the same German last name. Reputable breeders don't sell a dozen different breeds or mixed-breeds, but that family did.
100% I live near Amish Country in Ohio, and my grandma once had a job where one of her duties was removing the "Made in China" stickers from small wooden toys that were being sold as "Amish Made."
As others have said, different types/sects of Amish and Mennonite have different rules regarding technology. I’ll also add that some of them make a distinction between technology used for work and that used for personal use — allowing their businesses to use refrigerators, for example, while prohibiting them at home.
Seen one video a guy doing a tour of a Amish community and he seen a girl flying down a dirt road on an electric bike and asked the guy how that is possible with no electricity and he said as long as it is solar it is allowed in some Amish communities.
I worked with a guy once who was the tractor mechanic for the local Mennonite farms. We would be at work and he would get a call and we would button up the shop a little earlier than normal so he could rush over and fix their tractor sitting dead in the field before it got dark. Old tractors break down quite often and I guess they paid him top dollar since he was basically on call at all times.
The amount of equipment needed to either gather enough delta8 from an entire field of hemp plants, or convert CBD, is not some simple refrigeration hack or small time chemical reactions. Read up about how much Delta-8 is in a plant and what equipment is needed for either conversion or isolation.
An acid bath, heating, and rinse will convert most delta-9 to delta-8, but most of it in extracts and edibles is made from CBD, which is a more complicated but less potentially perilous process.
How much infrastructure does it take to make that? If all you need is electricity at a level that could be supplied with gasoline generators then yes they could make it.
There's a common misconception that the Amish shun electricity or this thing or that thing which is not true.
They won't participate in anything that breaks the Sabbath so they can buy and use any type of equipment as long as they can find a company that doesn't run on Sunday.
A lot of people get mennonites and Amish confused as well. If this is in Michigan where weed is legal and there are many mennonites throughout the state. Particularly in the michiana region.
Delta 8 is made in a lab from CBD. It doesn't occur in high enough quantities to extract from straight cannabis plants. In a lab they extract CBD and then turn it into delta 8 THC through a series of chemical reactions.
Not a chance they made it unless there's a community of Amish people with chemistry degrees and a chemistry lab on their farm. They're reselling smoke shop garbage.
On a side note, this is also why delta 8 and other alt noid "extracts" tend to have unknown and nasty impurities. The conversion process is not completely clean nor are the labs regulated in any way.
I highly doubt they're really making delta 8 weed. Delta 8 weed which is quasi-legal through the Farm Bill (until this November when the BBB provisions kick in that close the loophole), is not grown directly, but artificially made. Marijuana plants don't produce much delta 8 THC. It has to be extracted from large quantities of flower and then added to regular hemp to sell as Delta 8 flower. Thats why you usually see delta 8 in vapes rather than flower. It starts life as a distillate.
An acid bath, heating, and rinse will convert most delta-9 to delta-8, but most of it in extracts and edibles is made from CBD, which is a more complicated but less potentially perilous process.
Amish shops exist all over the place. I live in Indianapolis and have been to several amish markets. They sell freshly grown tomatoes and also have a fridge full of coca-cola. It doesn't mean they are claiming they manufactured the coca-cola even if I post a picture on reddit with the title "Amish selling their homemade coca-cola"
It's a pretty simple chemical conversion from CBD that can be done at home, but I wouldn't trust the average guy (or Amish guy) to do the conversion in the kitchen.
Regardless the chemicals are pretty simple and the process is too. Mennonite Amish are okay with more technology and this is definitely within the realm of possibility.
And, nothing about their way of life stops them from reselling.
Thank you. Too many people seem to think delta variants are somehow grown naturally. They aren't, and can often contain dangerous byproducts of the synthesis process.
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u/Delicious-Pepper23 4h ago
Would the Amish have the ability to make delta 8 THC?