r/interesting • u/No_Finger_218 • 4h ago

SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.

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u/No-Cover4993 3h ago

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.

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u/DebtPsychological461 2h ago

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.

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u/ergaster8213 21m ago

This actually helps explains to me part of why there are so many Amish breeders. So, thanks.

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u/Acceptable-Case9562 2h ago

I didn't know that. Damn.☹️

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u/wildcatwildcard 2h ago

You're just going to take a random reddit comment as the truth? maybe it is, but there is 0 proof or evidence provided here

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u/International-Mix633 1h ago

https://woundedpawproject.org/the-amish-community-and-puppy-mills/

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u/wildcatwildcard 1h ago

Thanks. I would've preferred an investigative report rather than a nonprofit's website article, but it's something. 

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u/DodgerGreywing 22m ago

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.