Hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at the
dark secrets of Amish families the Amish are a very small community that
can be found across the USA they're mostly in Ohio Pennsylvania and Indiana
Amish people do not like modern society and wish for a world without technology
if you ever see a horse-drawn carriage on the road chances are that's a knavish
person driving it this stereotype is they love God read the Bible a lot and
obey all the laws but are there some secrets that Amish families would rather
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bell - first off we have puppy mills in case you don't know puppy mills are
pretty much dog farms well amich communities own 20% of all
puppy mills in the u.s. a puppy mills are where most people get pet dogs from
pet stores buy them in bulk for lots of money and it's one of the main ways
amich communities make money but these dogs are kept in terrible conditions
some live in cages their entire lives and every year around 5 million dogs
passed away in puppy mills that's more than 10,000 dogs per day these cages are
often stacked ten cages high this means the dogs on the bottom row have a 90%
chance of developing an eye or ear infection also if dog can no longer be
bred or sold as a puppy then they are taken out without right they're removed
Old Yeller style the Amish consider puppies as livestock this means they're
not actually breaking any laws sometimes dogs even have their bark removed by a
steel pipe being shoved down their throats
this is so they can keep more dogs without anyone knowing how many dogs
they actually have on their farms but most Amish puppy mills have hundreds or
thousands of dogs next up is graves Irish funerals are slightly different
from a traditional funeral first off it's not held in a church it's held in
the home of the person who's passed away but the really weird thing is the graves
amazingly the graves are actually dug by hand that's because the Amish do not
believe in modern technology this means it can sometimes take three days to dig
a grave they also build the coffins by hand all done by the community there are
also no eulogies at this funeral in fact it's a much more low-key event than the
funerals you or I would go to that's because the Amish believe that when he
passed away your spirit leaves your body therefore the only reason they have
funerals is to praise God they believe the person's spirit is no
longer even in that body so the body is not that important next up is education
the Amish do not go to regular middle schools or high schools instead they go
to special amateur schools in their own communities their schools are often very
small with one or two rooms most people's life plan is to do well in
school do well in college and then get a good job but if you're Amish then you're
pretty much destined to become a farmer or craftsman so you don't actually need
any formal college education and that is why the Amish only do schooling up to
the eighth grade that's right after grade 8 you're done with school if
you're Amish some people criticize this saying that the children don't have all
the opportunities other kids have in life there's also religious reasons as
to why the Amish stopped schooling at grade 8 they believe that higher
education may threaten their religious values basically the reason why they
have such bad schooling is because of practicality it leaves the kids with
pretty much no life skills at all this means they have to stay in the Amish
community as if they left they wouldn't be able to get any work next up is
inbreeding in the 18th century the Amish religion was founded with around 200
people but today in the USA there's around a quarter million Amish people
obviously 200 people don't easily make 250,000 people just like that this means
in the Amish community there is a lot of inbreeding this causes a higher than
average rate of genetic disorders the Amish also have a higher infant
mortality rate too before marriage the Amish do not take any genetic tests to
see if they're related this means if these couples have children they may
have deformities or genetic disorders you may think why don't they just do the
test to check if they're related well it's all because the Amish do not like
modern technology and that includes biological testing they don't actually
mind if this happens to their kids as they simply say it's goats while this
roughly translates to God's will meaning stuff happens next up is cover-ups the
Amish live in their own community and reject the outside world and because of
this they do have different laws for example animal treatment laws instead
the Amish carry out their own kind of legal system but one part of Amish life
is to never report crimes to authorities well one day something amazing was found
out after a man named David Yoda left his Amish community after he left he
confessed his sister had murdered his knees but apparently it had been covered
up by the community another man named Chris was also found out for doing some
terrible things I can't even speak about he was arrested by the authorities after
an anonymous tip-off but his family were actually more interested in covering up
the crime next up is animal treatment so we already know from the puppy mills
that the Amish do not treat animals very well
but sadly their bad treatment of animals does not stop with puppy mills the Amish
get around using horses instead of cars and they actually view horses as farming
equipment not animals the horses that pull their carriages are often very
underweight they're left standing all day long and have to work very hard and
when they grow too old or if they're not performing well enough then they're
taken out and if one of their dogs gets ill then they simply take them out too
that's because they don't want to pay for medical care some say dogs are a
man's best friend but not when it comes to Amish men
next up is pollution you may think amich people release no pollution into the
atmosphere whatsoever after all they're very simple farmers who don't even like
using electricity well the Amish showing around 5,000
farms in Pennsylvania alone and on those farms they release an amazing amount of
fertilizer this fertilizer then flows into the Chesapeake Bay which is a body
of water between Maryland and Virginia the Amish do not follow pollution rules
like other people there have been various efforts by the Environmental
Protection Agency to try and stop them using so much fertilizer but apparently
the Amish farmers take it as an insult however this amount of fertilizer has
created some black zones in the bay these are areas where oxygen levels are
so low they can't support any life so even though Amish people don't have cars
or things which cause pollution for normal people they do release a lot of
pollution in different ways next up is Mexico over America it's pretty obvious
that amich people do not like the USA the USA is very modern and they do not
like this but one country the Amish do like is Mexico you may be saying in
Mexico just as modern as America so why do they like it well many years ago
Mexico have large plots of land which were untouched Mexico also has no
military draft and they also like the cost-effective medical care in Mexico
that's because the Amish do not health health insurance in America but
strangely another thing the Amish love about Mexico is their food it's now very
common for Amish families to have tortillas salsa and tacos
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