Lancaster County and Dog breeding

Set the DVR's for ABC's NIGHTLINE tonight...
Puppies 'Viewed as Livestock' in Amish Community, Says Rescue Advocate
Exclusive Access: Cutting-Edge Facilities or Puppy Factories? By SHARYN ALFONSI and TED GERSTEIN March 27, 2009

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!