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Amish Amish

Member of a conservative Christian group in North America known as the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church. The Amish originated in 1693–97 as followers of the Mennonite elder Jakob Ammann (1644?–c. 1730) in Switzerland, Alsace, and Germany.
 and Mennonite farmers refuse to participate in Maryland's tobacco eradication eradication

extermination of an infectious agent so that no further cases of the related disease can occur.


virtual eradication
 program calling it shameful shame·ful  
adj.
1.
a. Causing shame; disgraceful.

b. Giving offense; indecent.

2. Archaic Full of shame; ashamed.
 welfare. Tobacco-settlement money pays farmers $1 per lb. per year for a decade to forego growing.
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Title Annotation:some farmers denounce Maryland's law that pays farmers for not growing tobacco
Author:Taylor, Jeff A.
Publication:Reason
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U5MD
Date:Jan 1, 2001
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