Set the DVR's for ABC's NIGHTLINE tonight...http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7187712&page=1
The amish are widely viewed as plain, peaceful people. Reclusive and private, most people only catch glimpses of them as they make their way through the hills of Pennsylvania's Dutch County in buggies.
Exclusive: Never-before-seen look at a facility where hundreds of dogs are bred.
But some of their perfectly manicured farms are home to a secret world. Lancaster County has been called the puppy mill capital of the U.S., and the trade is largely dominated by the Amish.
Watch the story tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET
It is a world most people never see, but undercover video shot by Main Line Animal Rescue provides a startling look. Hundreds of puppies can be seen stacked in crate on top of crate. Most of those puppies will eventually be sold to pet stores, but their mothers will likely never know a home other than this.
The female breeders live their life producing litter after litter... until they can't any longer. Bill Smith, the founder of Main Line Animal Rescue, says that the dogs are then disposed of -- sometimes euthanized, sometimes shot. And it's perfectly legal. The truth must come out and the cruelty stopped!
Quips is getting ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day !!!! This is from The Quips Pub email and I wanted to repost it here for my neighborhood pub:
L Word Serenade by Beck D Watch before Sunday nights ending of the L WORD by Rebecca Drysdale! So so funny.
This is an old photo of me. It was taken after US Army basic training in 1985. I was a 95 Bravo or Military Police. I look so young and served during the cold war, having been stationed in West Germany. I am 43 years old now. I was listening to Terry Gross on NPR-Fresh Air yesterday and she interviewed Former Marine Donovan Campbell who served three combat deployments, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. In Iraq, he commanded Joker One, a platoon of new Marines that he trained and transformed into a fighting unit. They were assigned to Ramadi, the capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province where they engaged in daily house-to-house combat with insurgents.
