Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns

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Also on social media recently people are saying they've found a way to make their raw milk" safe." Boiling it.

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Anonymous wrote:Also on social media recently people are saying they've found a way to make their raw milk" safe." Boiling it.

LOL.

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I like that they acknowledged their mistake. You all are being too hard on them.

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Anonymous wrote:I like that they acknowledged their mistake. You all are being too hard on them.

I mean yeah it’s good they apologized, but we have known to pasteurize milk for well over 100 years. It’s not new science.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m actually shocked their PR people let them release that statement. obviously saying it’s unfortunate and an apology is warranted, but saying that you didn’t realize it took careful planning and infrastructure… feel like that just opened them up for a lawsuit.

I don’t understand how you cannot know that - I’ve had friends who tried to do local baking small businesses - there are a ton of requirements to sell food beyond like a bake sale. It’s heavily regulated.

That statement was absolutely baffling to me.

I agree. It's weird. And I'm French and drank raw milk.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m actually shocked their PR people let them release that statement. obviously saying it’s unfortunate and an apology is warranted, but saying that you didn’t realize it took careful planning and infrastructure… feel like that just opened them up for a lawsuit.

I don’t understand how you cannot know that - I’ve had friends who tried to do local baking small businesses - there are a ton of requirements to sell food beyond like a bake sale. It’s heavily regulated.

That statement was absolutely baffling to me.

I agree. It's weird. And I'm French and drank raw milk.

There are stupid people in France too. Not exactly newsworthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I like that they acknowledged their mistake. You all are being too hard on them.

I mean yeah it’s good they apologized, but we have known to pasteurize milk for well over 100 years. It’s not new science.

And "we had no idea that selling milk that might contain germs from cow poop involved any rules or regulations or special processes to reduce the risk of killing someone" is an insane thing to admit.

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Guys when I saw this story last week I went down the rabbit hole on Reddit. You need to see the state of this barn. Apparently they have robots that clean the poop but it appears to function like a roomba when it encounters dog poop - spreads liquid poop everywhere.

Be warned - this is absolutely disgusting - and this isn’t a gotcha; they actively post these pictures. https://www.reddit.com/r/ballerinafarmsnark/comments/1pt6tii/hmmm_raw_milk/

I wouldn’t even drink pasteurized milk from this place.

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Anonymous wrote:I like that they acknowledged their mistake. You all are being too hard on them.

I mean yeah it’s good they apologized, but we have known to pasteurize milk for well over 100 years. It’s not new science.

Yes but they like raw milk and use raw milk themselves - that’s their whole spiel. Now they know it’s not safe and are going to change some things. We haven’t heard of anyone getting sick from their raw milk yet thankfully.

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Anonymous wrote:Also on social media recently people are saying they've found a way to make their raw milk" safe." Boiling it.

Hahahahaha please tell me you are joking.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like that they acknowledged their mistake. You all are being too hard on them.

I mean yeah it’s good they apologized, but we have known to pasteurize milk for well over 100 years. It’s not new science.

Yes but they like raw milk and use raw milk themselves - that’s their whole spiel. Now they know it’s not safe and are going to change some things. We haven’t heard of anyone getting sick from their raw milk yet thankfully.

Didnt a baby die?

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Anonymous wrote:Also on social media recently people are saying they've found a way to make their raw milk" safe." Boiling it.

Hahahahaha please tell me you are joking.

I've seen this. It's insane. Especially b/c boiling milk degrades the nutritional value more than pasteurization. These are NOT smart people.

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Here's the thing. There is a legitimate demographic of people who grew up on dairy farms "drinking from the bulk tank" and were always perfectly fine. The difference is this: a lot of those people are literally (*yes, literally*) 6th or 8th generation dairy farmers. As in dairy farming ever since they immigrated from Switzerland 400 years ago, and probably dairy farming before that. If you're from PA you know these people. They know how to keep their barns clean. They do all work themselves. They clean things constantly and whether they look dirty or not. They are hardcore on this.

Now enters Ballerina Farm. 1st gen farmer, mostly for the insta. How hard can it be? Yeah, pretty hard it turns out. Without 400 years of inherited knowledge, Swiss-German round-the-clock work ethic and obsession with cleanliness. Yeah, you're gonna have a bad time.

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There is poop everywhere in their dairy barn. They don’t know what they’re doing. It’s disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so typical. Talk about how everything must be pure and free from scientific tampering.

Without having the brains to realize that a lot of that science has been keeping us safe from things that used to kill us 100 years ago.

Yes. I mean, they could just pasturize it and get rid of the bacteria. Problem solved.

But that would be "not natural" and being "not natural" is unsafe. /s