And there is a huge difference between Amish and Hutterites: While the Amish practice a traditional style of farming, where single families have their own farms with dairy cows and horses that are used for field work and for transportation and in general avoid modern technology, the Hutterites live on large and industrialized communal farms, with industrial machines and vacuums and many amenities of the modern world. Consequently, researchers found a much higher rate of microbes and microbe poop in the houses of the Amish compared to the Hutterites. The rates of asthma and other allergic
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