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

[Anonymous]

I bought seasoning from her once and there was a hair in it. Like a 10" black hair. (I have shoulder length light brown hair so it was not mine lol.)

I would've been willing to try their meat but that kind of turned me off. If you're getting hair in a effing seasoning blend what's going on with the meat.

[Anonymous]

Hot take but I think Ballerina Farm hate is overblown. And no, I'm not Mormon, or MAGA, or even a rural American. I am an unmarried 30something in DC who votes blue and doesn't go to church.

I don't think Hannah is as problematic as people make her out to be. She's a Mormon woman acting like a Mormon woman - having lots of kids, running a jobby type business, going to church, and really only socializing with her mom and her 500 sisters and nieces. (Her oldest sister and the sister's oldest daughter were pregnant at the same time last year.) She used to do beauty pageants which was kind of cringe but I think she's over that cause she hasn't done it in a couple years.

She never verbalizes a tradwife agenda. Imo, cooking from scratch for your 50 kids isn't "tradwife propaganda." It's just something that the type of person who has 50 kids on a farm in the middle of nowhere has to do. She never says women should get married and have as many babies as possible, she never says women should quit their jobs, she's never even really pushed the raw milk thing except to say it tastes good to her, but I think that's gross. She's never said anything pro-Trump or even remotely political. When I think of tradwife propaganda I think of Allie Beth Stuckey telling women to skip college and get married and have babies as early as possible, not a Mormon farmer's wife making sourdough for her kids.

Saying she's a MAGA moron who wants her DD to be raped by an older man as someone did a couple posts up is beyond vile.

I unfollowed her because her kids always screaming in the background would spike my cortisol but I didn't find her to be the right wing monster people make her out to be. If there's anything antifeminist about her it's that she spends a ton of time and money to be appealing to the male gaze, but I do the same so who am I to judge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought seasoning from her once and there was a hair in it. Like a 10" black hair. (I have shoulder length light brown hair so it was not mine lol.)

I would've been willing to try their meat but that kind of turned me off. If you're getting hair in a effing seasoning blend what's going on with the meat.

Omg gagggg

[Anonymous]

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

There's poop in any dairy barn. Cows are filthy beasts, which is why we pasteurize stuff that comes out of an orifice not far from their a$$holes. Or we should anyway.

But having poop on the floor of a dairy barn is not a huge red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Raw milk is extremely dangerous

No, it is not extremely dangerous.

We grew up buying raw milk from the dairy farmer. We would boil, cool, refrigerate and then consume as regular pasteurized milk.

When we did not have a fridge, we boiled the milk morning and evening to kill any pathogens. No one EVER got sick.

lol, do you know what pasteurization is? Milk is brought to 160 degrees for 15 seconds. The reason nobody got sick from your raw milk is you brought it to 212 degrees.

I can’t stop laughing at the just boil the raw milk people. Like literally how are people this clueless.

It’s like toddlers who think broccoli is icky but the special little green trees their mom gives them are yummy! So much better than broccoli!

[Anonymous]

Also meant to add the weirdest thing about Hannah is she runs on her treadmill barefoot. Also when she had the last baby it was born on the toilet because she had to poop...a bunch of people on snark sites were like...how does a mother of seven, in the midst of her eighth home birth, not realize when you're in active labor and you feel a bowel movement coming on, the "bowel movement" is really the baby lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hot take but I think Ballerina Farm hate is overblown. And no, I'm not Mormon, or MAGA, or even a rural American. I am an unmarried 30something in DC who votes blue and doesn't go to church.

I don't think Hannah is as problematic as people make her out to be. She's a Mormon woman acting like a Mormon woman - having lots of kids, running a jobby type business, going to church, and really only socializing with her mom and her 500 sisters and nieces. (Her oldest sister and the sister's oldest daughter were pregnant at the same time last year.) She used to do beauty pageants which was kind of cringe but I think she's over that cause she hasn't done it in a couple years.

She never verbalizes a tradwife agenda. Imo, cooking from scratch for your 50 kids isn't "tradwife propaganda." It's just something that the type of person who has 50 kids on a farm in the middle of nowhere has to do. She never says women should get married and have as many babies as possible, she never says women should quit their jobs, she's never even really pushed the raw milk thing except to say it tastes good to her, but I think that's gross. She's never said anything pro-Trump or even remotely political. When I think of tradwife propaganda I think of Allie Beth Stuckey telling women to skip college and get married and have babies as early as possible, not a Mormon farmer's wife making sourdough for her kids.

Saying she's a MAGA moron who wants her DD to be raped by an older man as someone did a couple posts up is beyond vile.

I unfollowed her because her kids always screaming in the background would spike my cortisol but I didn't find her to be the right wing monster people make her out to be. If there's anything antifeminist about her it's that she spends a ton of time and money to be appealing to the male gaze, but I do the same so who am I to judge.

The criticism is not that she’s MAGA, it is that she is disingenuous about her wealth, and hawks products with low transparency about where they are from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to work in a dairy factory where there were huge vats of pasteurized milk. I guess the "facility and infrastructure" issues mean that they have to have much smaller batches as the risk of contamination increases as you mix larger volumes that are unpasterized. And you probably need refrigeration at every step.

I drank raw milk when I was traveling through Switzerland. The owner of a lodge had a few cows. But like someone mentioned upthreas, she did boil the milk before serving it. It was delicious.

If you boil it, you're accomplishing the same thing as pasteurization, except that because you're cooking it at a higher temp, you're degrading the nutrients more. Do people not understand what pasteurizarion is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raw milk is extremely dangerous

No, it is not extremely dangerous.

We grew up buying raw milk from the dairy farmer. We would boil, cool, refrigerate and then consume as regular pasteurized milk.

When we did not have a fridge, we boiled the milk morning and evening to kill any pathogens. No one EVER got sick.

If you cook it, it's not raw. Boiling it kills the germs, just like pasteurization, just at a higher temp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hot take but I think Ballerina Farm hate is overblown. And no, I'm not Mormon, or MAGA, or even a rural American. I am an unmarried 30something in DC who votes blue and doesn't go to church.

I don't think Hannah is as problematic as people make her out to be. She's a Mormon woman acting like a Mormon woman - having lots of kids, running a jobby type business, going to church, and really only socializing with her mom and her 500 sisters and nieces. (Her oldest sister and the sister's oldest daughter were pregnant at the same time last year.) She used to do beauty pageants which was kind of cringe but I think she's over that cause she hasn't done it in a couple years.

She never verbalizes a tradwife agenda. Imo, cooking from scratch for your 50 kids isn't "tradwife propaganda." It's just something that the type of person who has 50 kids on a farm in the middle of nowhere has to do. She never says women should get married and have as many babies as possible, she never says women should quit their jobs, she's never even really pushed the raw milk thing except to say it tastes good to her, but I think that's gross. She's never said anything pro-Trump or even remotely political. When I think of tradwife propaganda I think of Allie Beth Stuckey telling women to skip college and get married and have babies as early as possible, not a Mormon farmer's wife making sourdough for her kids.

Saying she's a MAGA moron who wants her DD to be raped by an older man as someone did a couple posts up is beyond vile.

I unfollowed her because her kids always screaming in the background would spike my cortisol but I didn't find her to be the right wing monster people make her out to be. If there's anything antifeminist about her it's that she spends a ton of time and money to be appealing to the male gaze, but I do the same so who am I to judge.

+1 I reported that disgusting post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raw milk is extremely dangerous

No, it is not extremely dangerous.

We grew up buying raw milk from the dairy farmer. We would boil, cool, refrigerate and then consume as regular pasteurized milk.

When we did not have a fridge, we boiled the milk morning and evening to kill any pathogens. No one EVER got sick.

If you cook it, it's not raw. Boiling it kills the germs, just like pasteurization, just at a higher temp.

Omg the I drink raw milk you just need to boil it first people are real! I always thought it was an internet urban legend 🤣🤣🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raw milk is extremely dangerous

No, it is not extremely dangerous.

We grew up buying raw milk from the dairy farmer. We would boil, cool, refrigerate and then consume as regular pasteurized milk.

When we did not have a fridge, we boiled the milk morning and evening to kill any pathogens. No one EVER got sick.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raw milk is extremely dangerous

No, it is not extremely dangerous.

We grew up buying raw milk from the dairy farmer. We would boil, cool, refrigerate and then consume as regular pasteurized milk.

When we did not have a fridge, we boiled the milk morning and evening to kill any pathogens. No one EVER got sick.

I'm not sure you know the difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

There's poop in any dairy barn. Cows are filthy beasts, which is why we pasteurize stuff that comes out of an orifice not far from their a$$holes. Or we should anyway.

But having poop on the floor of a dairy barn is not a huge red flag.

Their barn is exceptionally dirty. I have been to dairy barns before.

[Anonymous]

https://people.com/ballerina-farms-hannah-neeleman-pregnant-with-baby-no-9-11781696

And she’s pregnant with baby #9.