It’s obviously not universally true, though you know that of course. I just feel it has to be said anytime discussions of groups of people come up.
But yes, having lived near Amish my whole life, the general cultural attitude toward animals is different than what I was raised with. My anglicized indigenous gram absolutely taught us to treat our stock better than we did each other, and to kill anything we hunted quick and clean and be grateful for the sacrifice. Nothing got you the switch quite as fast as being mean to an animal. Our nearest neighbors on our back field side were an Amish community. We spent a lot of time with them. And they had a much more utilitarian and dominionist idea about their animals. They weren’t seen as living beings but as living tools, and were disposable once they were no longer useful. There are a lot of puppy mills in Amish country.
And the misogyny was deep and rationalized as being biblical. They saw their women and children as being only slightly more sentient than their animals, and treated both as being in need of a strong male hand. There is definitely an ugly streak in there that is consistent with a lot of other fundamentalist belief systems.
It also seems to be connected to the rejection of secularism, so ideas like equality and acceptance of other world views are as alien as insisting on pasteurizing milk or immunizing kids. That’s English thinking, and it is seen as a threat to a community that often feels threatened by outside forces. So…despite mango Mussolini being far from their moral ideal, he’s a strong, authoritarian, male presence and some folks are setting aside their apolitical and maybe even their pacifist traditions to support a strong arm dictator. Who somehow makes them feel safe. I do my part to push liberal farming views, talk about how we can SEE the effects of climate change in our crop cycles…how cool Willie Nelson is. But yeah. It’s an uphill battle and I’m a godless heathen who has been misled. 
ETA: sorry, I’ve contributed to a tangent here on how the Amish are being recruited to Trumpism. I’ve tried to keep tying it back into the topic of raw milk and I do believe it’s connected but if I’ve wandered too far into the fields here, any mod can feel free to delete or redirect.
