Let me tell you a secret, folks.  The Amish are interesting people, and one can be tempted to admire their Spartan lifestyle, pacifistic demeanor and close-knit sense of community.  But when it comes to caring for their animals, these people are assholes.  You read it here first.  Lancaster County PA may be picturesque, but you don’t want to see the killing fields behind their barns.  Perhaps second only to Missouri for puppy mills.

Is it so much to ask, in the name of the God who is so gentle with us, that we be kind and gentle to those most vulnerable?  Can’t we be compassionate with animals, children, and the old and sick?  Does everybody who thinks God is on his side, and he’s living a righteous life, have to be such a stick up the ass, arrogant prick?

So here’s a little justice , for the voiceless little ones.  An Amish man off to jail for a month, on charges including animal cruelty.  It’s a start.  And ooh look – the judge was a woman.  Bet that got his goat.  Don’t drop the soap, Jebediah.  

“It’s pretty clear what you’re operating is a factory – for dogs,” [Judge] Butts told Lapp as she pronounced sentence. “If you need to grow something to sell it, don’t grow animals, grow vegetables.
“If this is the way life is over the mountain, it’s going to stop,” the judge added. “There’s a way you treat animals and this isn’t it.”

[Please excuse my harsh language, folks.  It’s out of character for this blog, but this sort of thing just gripes my cookies.]