Under a full moon, more than 100 people gathered on a country road here
Friday night for a somber candlelight vigil to remember 80 dogs shot to death by
two Amish farmers late last month.
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Author, psychologist and animal welfare advocate Jana Kohl has vowed to
wage war on Pennsylvania's Amish tourism industry by exposing inhumane treatment of breeder dogs by the Amish and Mennonite communities.
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"A lot of people with a lot of money and resources are prepared to venture
into a campaign like this," she said. "It's going to be a bigger and more
embarrassing campaign than people expect, and it's going to shock."
What a train wreck! The plain community is profoundly dependent on the goodwill of the larger society for the peaceful and mutually beneficial co-existence that they currently enjoy! Their failure to get this monkey off their back reveals an epic flaw in the viability of their social structure. Think about it; plain community doctrine demands, and receives unquestioned fealty from it's adherents over mundane issues like the width of their hat brims. Shouldn't they be able to recognize that this issue needs a remedy and bring their famed communal strengths to a solution?
2 comments:
Holy cow, 80 dogs? What was their crime? (The Lancaster newspaper requires a subscription.)
they became a financial liability
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