Facts About Amish Hygiene And Lifestyle Habits

[post_page_title]Waste not, want not – literally[/post_page_title]

For us city folk, waste management isn’t something that ever crosses our minds. After all, we simply flush when we’re done and that’s the end of that. We neither know nor care to know what happens afterwards. Conservative Amish, on the other hand, don’t enjoy that privilege.

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Outhouses get full, and when they do they need to be emptied. Ever practical thinkers, some Amish simply remove the waste and plow it into their fields as fertilizer. This practice has gotten them into trouble with authorities, however, as objections were raised to plowing raw sewage into the soil.

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