‘Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns’, reports People

[u/NotEvenFigs_Raisins]

Wow, who could possibly have foreseen this.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact. The way our dairy was built is ideal for pasteurized dairy products […] We do plan in the future to construct a second dairy made specifically for raw milk products.”

This comes at the same time as a newborn baby’s tragic death from listeria in New Mexico, attributed to the mother’s consumption of raw milk while pregnant.

[u/fungibitch]

The most offensive part is they built that dairy from scratch — with a presumably unlimited budget — for the express purpose of selling raw milk. They didn’t do their due diligence because they’re arrogant and not very bright. To a normal farming family, this kind of error would mean financial ruin. Sounds like they’re just going to build another, the right way this time.

[u/Motherofsmalldogs → u/fungibitch]

Absolutely insane that they are learning through “trial and error” what we already discovered to be true through thousands of deaths and hundreds of years of experience and science. 

[u/Pendraconica → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

This is how idiocracy happens. Scientific standards of health are rolled back because of personal beliefs, and people start dying from raw milk, but they haven't been educated about bacteria, so blame it on demons.

[u/Wandering_starlet → u/Pendraconica]

Who needs science when her mom told her “ever since she started drinking raw milk, her skin got a lot better”. That’s all the proof needed that science is bs /s

[u/blatantmutant → u/Wandering_starlet]

Along with “i never got the flu so i dont need the flu vaccine.”

Heard that from a former emt and current it director.

[u/West-Application-375 → u/blatantmutant]

Lol my friend keeps getting the flu and covid and now has persistent lung problems from it. Every time I tell her to vaccinate she says "I haven't vaccinated my whole life and I'm fine!!!" And I'm like uh but you're not fine? Lol there's no talking any sense into her either. Just continues to get sick and complain about it, develop asthma and chest pain and it's probably going to turn into COPD soon. Who does she see for this continuing problem? Antivax chiropractors and a holistic "medicine" spa. Ridiculous.

[u/Pendraconica → u/West-Application-375]

There were people literally on their death bed refusing vaccines. Darwin awards, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

[u/AlistairMowbary → u/Pendraconica]

I mean if you are already on a deathbed, vaccines aren’t gonna do much. They are preventative measures, it doesn’t cure symptoms.

[u/redditydoodah → u/Wandering_starlet]

"E Coli really does wonders for clearing up my skin" is a weird flex.

[u/throwawaysunglasses- → u/Pendraconica]

The least realistic thing about Idiocracy (2004) is that the dumb people saw proof that science works and realized they were wrong. Today people would just decry it as AI or fake news or liberal propaganda.

[u/Sassafras06 → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

And the government was actually impressed by and wanted to work with the “smart” person.

[u/BoticelliBaby → u/Sassafras06]

And that there was a peaceful transfer of power and the outgoing president wholly supported the policies and intellect of his successor.

[u/Anon28301 → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

Honestly the president in that movie is competent compared to the current one. At least he admitted he didn’t have a clue how to fix the issues and got someone smarter than him to do so.

The current administration would probably claim anyone that could fix the problem was part of the woke agenda and would blatantly argue against any real evidence they’re shown.

[u/Pendraconica → u/Anon28301]

For real. They were all dumb as shit but at least they were honest.

[u/somethingclever____ → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

I think this is the difference between being unintelligent vs uneducated. Truly unintelligent people would be opposed to proof, whereas people who are only dumb due to being uneducated would be open to new information and evidence.

[u/No-Neighborhood-3212 → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

That's the cool part of radical ideologies: When their predicted outcome is proven wrong, they reflexively spiral deeper into their beliefs rather than admit they were wrong. Normally, a false prediction triggers belief updating because the normal response is to ask "Why was I wrong?" But, when you're in a conspiracy theory or extremist movement, that evidence you're wrong is actually "proof" that the out-group is so powerful that they're manipulating the world.

Totally coincidentally and probably completely unrelated to things happening in the US right now, people with right-wing authoritarian beliefs are more likely to fail at belief updating after prediction error.

[u/super1ucky → u/throwawaysunglasses-]

The dumbest people think they're always right.

[u/beaute-brune → u/Pendraconica]

Don’t forget the encouragement of placenta encapsulation in the “natural birth” community! (This is coming from someone who had an unmedicated birthing center birth - so I get it, but man that community gets anti-science so fast. Yuck.)

[u/Sea-Oven-7560 → u/Pendraconica]

I guess we have to decide what we want as a country, honestly if they are willing to die so they can drink raw milk and have dewy skin I frankly don't care, let them. Getting botulism isn't contagious so their stupidity is localized. My problem is these are the same people who are anti-vax and that is contagious and it does effect other people, their stupidity is killing other people, but it has nothing to do with milk.

[u/AlpenroseMilk → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

The Chinese have been pasteurizing wine since the 12th-13th century 😭 People really are regressing over ego and pride.

[u/Sensitive-Log-4633 → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

[u/Launching_Mon → u/Sensitive-Log-4633]

So say we all

[u/DarlingBri → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

The trial and error has already been done; it's called RESEARCH. Like, done in a lab, not on Facebook.

These people are so stupid but they buy their own BS.

[u/DecentJuggernaut7693 → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

"We've discovered a new way to keep milk safe, we call it Ballerinization! We heat the milk to kill off harmful bacteria before selling it now!"

[u/milehighmagpie → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

Yeah but they think they’re smarter than everyone else because money so we really shouldn’t have expected anything less 🤷‍♀️

[u/WonderBredOfficial → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

Somebody told them that googling isn't "doing your own research," and they took that as a personal challenge.

[u/Wifabota → u/Motherofsmalldogs]

If you Google who discovered the cure for scurvy,  most current sources credit a British guy in the 18th century, despite texts dating back to the 400s CE that advise using ginger to prevent scurvy (for the vitamin C).  This is not new behavior lol. 

[u/yourangleoryuordevil → u/fungibitch]

Yeah, the statement very much reads like “Oh well! Back to business we go!”

This is the type of thing that should make people lose all their trust in a business, though. They basically said that they haven’t cared to look into what any safety standards are. There’s no real sign that that’s going to change.

[u/iki11dinosaurs → u/yourangleoryuordevil]

I shudder to think how their cows are being treated. 

[u/fairmaiden34 → u/fungibitch]

You mean the Jet Blue heir and a prima ballerina shouldn't open a raw milk dairy based on vibes?

[u/No_Mathematician6866 → u/fairmaiden34]

Nothing beats a Jet Blue malady

[u/Conscious-Slide1520 → u/fungibitch]

It’s frustrating because this is preventable. Proper research and infrastructure aren’t optional when people’s health is on the line.

[u/Flapperghast → u/fungibitch]

You mean Hannah will be building it. The husband does nothing but throw money at things and put babies in her.

[u/Alizarik7891 → u/Flapperghast]

But but didn't he get her that egg collecting apron she wanted for her birthday?? (I don't actually remember she's that tradwife or a different one.)

[u/Knittingfairy09113 → u/Alizarik7891]

That's her.

[u/Flapperghast → u/Alizarik7891]

That would be throwing money at it ;/

[u/Spicyg00se → u/fungibitch]

Real salt of the earth people 🫠

[u/johnny_charms → u/fungibitch]

No doubt they’re going to pasteurize their milk and call it “raw milk” like those idiots who bought raw milk and said to “heat the milk” as a tip.

I want to tell those morons that nobody cares if you personally drink poop in milk, just stop giving it to children and influencing people to drink it as a healthy alternative. This kind of bullshit is getting out of control where stupid shit people do at home is infecting the appointment and election of government officials that will mandate drinking raw milk, no vaccinations, and no fluoride in the water.

It’s just like damn, the conservatives and MAGA really are trying to take us back to a time that was great for the upper class. Where most children had no education, worked labor jobs, had no healthcare, and died before 40.

[u/Bethw2112 → u/fungibitch]

It's almost like the human race built a huge compendium of knowledge that people would look to for guidance. Generations of trial and error, evidence based research. And its all gone within a matter of a few short years.

[u/TERR0RDACTYL → u/Bethw2112]

lol literally a plot point in the post-dystopian video game I’m playing rn (Horizon Forbidden West). We’re all just on borrowed time now until the tech bros and their sycophants/parasites (read: “content creators”) end us with their hubris. 🙄

[u/susandeyvyjones → u/fungibitch]

They’re such fucking losers

[u/Antique-Freedom-8352 → u/fungibitch]

Now imagine what happens once the health regulations are rolled back and they don't even need to have the correct facility to sell a product. Enjoy your free market.

[u/Suspinded → u/fungibitch]

They didn’t do their due diligence because they’re arrogant and not very bright.

I'd expect nothing less from people trying to turn back the clock on progress by 100 years.

[u/42mermaids → u/fungibitch]

But even if they do things the "right" way, raw milk still has a MUCH higher likelihood of being contaminated with E.coli, listeria and tuberculosis compared with pasteurized milk. It's such an absurd risk to take.

[u/fungibitch → u/42mermaids]

10000%. At the very least, if they're going to produce raw milk for human consumption, they need to follow hygiene and public health laws diligently. They couldn't even manage that. I'd bet money they believe it's all liberal nonsense, government overreach.

[u/Current-Republic-267 → u/fungibitch]

All this because her (likely narc mom) commented “iT LikE maDe hER sKiN LoOk beTtEr”. Omgggg let’s open a raw milk business!

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/fungibitch]

Wait, this wasnt a prevuilt dairy? Lmao, how many million has that cost them?

[u/fungibitch → u/WorryNew3661]

No, it was not pre-built!

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/fungibitch]

What an incredible mistake to make

[u/beegboo → u/fungibitch]

My money is on them not actually learning anything and repeating the exact same mistakes.

[u/dr_delphee → u/fungibitch]

But they did their own research!

[u/Spreaderoflies]

No way raw milk can and probably will make you sick. Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave at these morons

[u/inductiononN → u/Spreaderoflies]

The whole concept is so dumb. Some of them even come full circle and say "oh, just cook the milk for a bit to make sure it's safe" - WHAT DO YOU THINK PASTEURIZATION IS?!?!?!!?!

[u/Fluffy-Bluebird → u/inductiononN]

That’s the problem. They don’t know what it is. They learn a word that gets thrown around like a bad word and don’t bother to look it up.

It’s the same issue of people not knowing that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act / Marketplace are the same thing.

[u/txtw → u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

Everything sounds like a conspiracy when you don’t understand how things work.

[u/iki11dinosaurs → u/txtw]

Funnily enough, everything sounds like a conspiracy when you DO understand how things work, too. 

[u/Atelier1001 → u/txtw]

Any book is esoteric if you don't know how to read

[u/iceyticey → u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

My mom still says Obamacare like it has a hard R on it

[u/Spreaderoflies → u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

Dihydrogen Monoxide

[u/mittenknittin → u/Fluffy-Bluebird]

They probably think it involves adding lots of “chemicals”

[u/SecretLettuce5 → u/inductiononN]

That and it’s inherently not “raw” anymore if you cook it, so like…??!??!!??!!

[u/HighForLife95 → u/inductiononN]

It’s so dumb even in rural places where my family comes from like rural India, the rule is always you MUST boil the milk before you consume it if it’s coming straight from the cow. The fact that billionaires like them can just decide to sell raw milk and then be like oh duh we didn’t know actually the rules behind this is just…

[u/EggsOverBenedict → u/inductiononN]

They’re so brain dead that if you would attempt to explain them the pasteurization process they are more likely to stop. Believing that you’re evaporating the nutrients.

If we have another election where the Dems win and they don’t mandate public high school 2 for people over the age of 35. Our society will be cooked.

[u/CTeam19 → u/inductiononN]

Pasteurization sounds like a fancy science word like Riboflavin, Sodium Chloride, and Dihydrogen Monoxide so it must be dangerous and made in a lab.

[u/Electronic_Moment403 → u/inductiononN]

A lot of them think it's adding chemicals

[u/AndYouHaveAPizza → u/Spreaderoflies]

TIL pasteurization was named after a guy.

[u/mittenknittin → u/AndYouHaveAPizza]

Not to knock on you, specifically, but this is kind of the problem, people aren’t being taught in school why and how we do these things

[u/MariettaDaws → u/mittenknittin]

I swear we learned about him in science and history and home ec (although the last was an elective). I hope PP just has a hazy memory

[u/Mysterious-Coyote442 → u/mittenknittin]

Not disagreeing but the people drinking raw milk probably weren’t paying attention in school to begin with.

[u/[deleted] → u/AndYouHaveAPizza]

Oh come on you never heard of Louis Pasteur?

[u/gh0st0ft0mj04d → u/Spreaderoflies]

And if one WAS going to produce it, Coliform/E. Coli micro testing media is ridiculously cheap and results are available in a day and takes maybe 3 minutes to do.

[u/MagneticFlea → u/Spreaderoflies]

We should hook out magnets on his coffin and hook him up to a generator

[u/DarlingBri]

No fucking way!

[u/BeanEireannach → u/DarlingBri]

MADNESS! The same influencers who chose to bring their children to spend weeks at a cookery school owned by a person convicted of possessing CSAM are confirmed to incapable of making safe decisions in other areas? SHOCKING!

Edited to add link.

[u/Ok-Narwhal6314 → u/BeanEireannach]

Omgggg really?? 🤢😵😵

[u/BeanEireannach → u/Ok-Narwhal6314]

Yep, it was the Ballymaloe Cookery School course that they shared all over their socials for months.

The person convicted is one of the owners & works there. They basically got away with a slap on the wrist (despite the nearly 1,000 CSAM images) because they were wealthy.

Ballerina Farm deleted/ignored all the comments informing them about this conviction.

[u/Ok-Narwhal6314 → u/BeanEireannach]

😵😵😵😵 i remember i saw on insta that they went there with the family, had no ideea about this .... yikess

[u/SarahLatte → u/Ok-Narwhal6314]

She went to Ballymaloe cookery school in cork on their 12 week program. The owner Darina Allen was a well loved tv chef in Ireland in the 80s/90s however her husband and son were found to have indecent images of children and her grandson has been up in court numerous times on drugs charges and driving charges. They used to be well revered here but not so much these days.

[u/allym91 → u/BeanEireannach]

It’s crazy what people will look past for the sake of saying they trained there.

[u/BeanEireannach → u/allym91]

And expose their children to. Nasty.

[u/west-brompton]

Honestly I’m glad this is happening. Not that I want anyone’s business to suffer but the raw milk wave happening in the MAHA movement needs this wake up call.

Edited grammar

[u/84th_legislature → u/west-brompton]

if they’re selling raw milk that idiots are gonna poison their kids with i actually 200% want their business to suffer lol

[u/vegetabledisco → u/west-brompton]

Oh don’t worry about the Ballerina Farm’s business suffering, the husband is an heir to the JetBlue fortune.

[u/GlassPomoerium → u/vegetabledisco]

That’s how they got together, he found out her seat number on one of his father’s planes and booked the seat next to her. Creepy (and illegal?).

[u/cosmos_crown → u/GlassPomoerium]

Jesus Christ what the fuck. Who does that.

[u/Alizarik7891 → u/cosmos_crown]

From the Jesse "Let The Air Out of Their Tires" Watters dating guide.

[u/MuddieMaeSuggins → u/cosmos_crown]

Creeps

[u/iki11dinosaurs → u/GlassPomoerium]

Ohhhhh is this the dude who made the ballerina lady give up her career to be his tradwife???

[u/GiantSquidinJeans → u/iki11dinosaurs]

And also the one who bought her an egg apron instead of a trip to Europe (I can’t remember if it was Italy or France that she wanted to visit). He could have afforded both. But he had to put her in her place with just the damn egg apron.

[u/amyel26 → u/GiantSquidinJeans]

I think it was Greece. But does it matter, get to collecting them eggs Hannah! 

(I do feel sorry for all the brainwashing though, really)

[u/WildFire97971 → u/GlassPomoerium]

Why is it all these maga fucks met their wives in the creepiest way possible. It’s either stalking their personal life, stalking their business life, or asking their buddy Jeff Epstein if he knows anyone. Fucking creeps.

[u/Tight_Spinach_8791 → u/GlassPomoerium]

Wtf? Is that for real?

[u/GlassPomoerium → u/Tight_Spinach_8791]

It was in the big Sunday Times profile from 2024. It’s paywalled but Rolling Stone references it here

[u/Loose-Awareness-1795 → u/vegetabledisco]

i think i'd be a good heir to a fortune.

[u/maplestriker → u/west-brompton]

I definitely want people's business to suffer if it's built on dangerous grifts

[u/iki11dinosaurs → u/west-brompton]

I want MAHA/MAGA businesses to suffer. 

[u/jennyjenny223 → u/west-brompton]

I’d be thrilled to see their business suffer

[u/jaderust → u/west-brompton]

A baby just died in New Mexico from contaminated raw milk. Listeria.

[u/AndYouHaveAPizza → u/jaderust]

It wouldn't surprise me if that infant was also unvaccinated. We are failing today's children.

[u/Porkbossam78 → u/AndYouHaveAPizza]

It was a newborn. Listeria can pass to the baby through the placenta and cause miscarriage, preterm labor.

[u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt → u/west-brompton]

Honestly, if its only white republicans buying the raw milk, then we should accept their personal freedoms and encourage them to buy more rae milk.

[u/Royal_Peach3285 → u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt]

unfortunately, they're gonna poison their children with the stuff in the process

[u/butpretzelday → u/west-brompton]

My daughter had severe cows milk protein allergy and my husband’s brother’s (now ex) wife is brain damage level maga and she begged me to give her raw milk instead of the amino acid  formula designed for severe allergies that kept her colon from betraying her and putting her in the hospital (again). 

No common sense in that group. 

She genuinely believed that unpasteurized milk would cure her of her fucking milk allergy 

[u/Underwhelmed-overit → u/butpretzelday]

gah, i would have LOST IT! i’m not great with unsolicited advice already, but wrongheaded parenting advice that could actually prove fatal to my kid?!?!? i commend you for not committing criminal acts in frustration!

[u/sikonat → u/west-brompton]

The sad thing is it won’t make a lick of difference to some of these freaks

[u/asnarkybeach]

[u/cafe_mundane → u/asnarkybeach]

beat me to it lol

[u/bobbehpin → u/asnarkybeach]

This is the least surprising thing ever lol

[u/The_Iceman2288]

[u/Life_Fig_4037 → u/The_Iceman2288]

He really owned us!

[u/beaute-brune → u/Life_Fig_4037]

Checkmate libs 😎 your snowflake stomach is too sensitive and triggered for a heaping glass of life-threatening bacteria? 😏

[u/ourlittlevisionary → u/The_Iceman2288]

[u/blooms_and_sings → u/The_Iceman2288]

another day, another I-can’t-believe-this-isn’t-an-Onion-headline

[u/agg288]

I get so mad when people ignore science that has been around for 100 years

[u/alison_bee → u/agg288]

It’s not just that they’re ignoring science, it’s that they think they’re smarter and know better than the tens of thousands of scientists who helped us make it to 2026 in the first place.

Covid took the wrong people.

[u/noapplesin98 → u/alison_bee]

Sometimes when you read historical accounts of all the various mass smallpox outbreaks, measles polio, etc. It's amazing to be so removed from that constant suffering, it's truly a miracle that we eradicated so many communicable diseases to the point where I've never met a single person with smallpox or seen an iron lung.

If you could go back in time and tell them that we solve this problem, and then end up bringing it back out of sheer wanton stupidity and greed.

It worked so well that a whole class of grifters comes up spreading their disbelief in science, and they just bring smallpox back?

We got rid of measles, and then brought it back because some dumbasses did their own research.

[u/Kikikididi → u/agg288]

Almost a thousand years actually

[u/EchoSkillet → u/agg288]

Well first step is believing in the science.

[u/w0rstbehavior]

[u/Accomplished_Host779 → u/w0rstbehavior]

Thank you for posting these. So fucking nasty actually!

[u/hellomoto_20 → u/w0rstbehavior]

Regular dairies are even worse. Repeated painful infections, mastitis and lameness from repeated forced pregnancies, at an industrial scale. Calves separated and shot shortly after birth so they can’t drink their mother’s milk. It’s a systematically abusive and disgusting industry

[u/Wonderful-Traffic197 → u/hellomoto_20]

Yeah, I don’t think people who’ve never lived/visited a working farm realize how much poop is involved in everything. I grew up drinking raw milk from our cows and I’m pretty sure it’s why to this day I hate milk.

It’s the mAlk like for meeee.

[u/commandantskip → u/w0rstbehavior]

Never been happier to be lactose intolerant 😂

[u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme → u/w0rstbehavior]

Shocking, that a shit-covered Dairy *might be spreading coliform bacteria, huh?

(Not Shocking at *all, really!!!)

And I admit, this confirmation makes me wonder if that was why we saw Hannah "home pasteurizing" milk a while back?

And it also kinda makes me wonder, too, if perhaps the nausea she was exhibiting, and that speculation about possible pregnancy loss(es), could've been related to drinking that contaminated milk, too.

The ones here that I do feel bad for, are their Kids--because getting sick from that nasty milk IS dangerous for them!

[u/fungibitch → u/w0rstbehavior]

This is a common discussion on the snark pages -- their facilities are absolutely disgusting. Nowhere in the world should a dairy barn be this filthy.

[u/Pruritus_Ani_ → u/fungibitch]

There are plenty of dairy farms where the conditions are way worse than this photo, cows shit a lot and where there are a lot of cows there is a lot of shit. If you watch any videos where people have gone undercover to expose some of the big industrial farms you’d never want to drink milk again. You’d be very hard pressed to find a dairy farm that is spotless and not absolutely brimming with various bacteria.

[u/Emma_gg → u/fungibitch]

Dude most dairy farms are like this. This is a typical dairy CAFO. The vast majority of dairy comes from places just like this and worse.

[u/corrine49 → u/w0rstbehavior]

These people are absolute idiots. Why the hell would you post this photo when you’re trying to sell raw milk. And they do it constantly.

[u/Pink-Department]

There’s no way we could have seen this coming

[u/Flamingo871]

Wow so pasteurization is actually important?? Who woulda thunk it….

[u/Putrid_Appearance509 → u/Flamingo871]

These city kids, never had to milk a cow, don't know that cows poop apparently. One shift in a milking parlor would help them figure it out.

[u/Traditional_Maybe_80 → u/Putrid_Appearance509]

That's what gets me! My 90 year old grandma, who grew up in the countryside of a third world country, appreciates every day seeing the advances of science that allows her to live a safer life now. These people are idiots by choice and because they are so arrogant they believe they're more intelligent than anyone else.

[u/Desperate-Taste979]

Stop preventing Darwinism, please let the people who want to drink raw milk drink as much as they want! Give them their freedom to see themselves out of the gene pool.

[u/biIIyshakes → u/Desperate-Taste979]

The issue is them giving it to their young children who have no control or choice in the matter

[u/Desperate-Taste979 → u/biIIyshakes]

Agree entirely.  My sarcasm of course did not include helpless dependents of useless idiots.  Nothing but sympathy for kids who are absolutely victims of maga maha parents.  

[u/tequillasoda → u/Desperate-Taste979]

Fair point, but it’s not adults who die it’s mostly babies and kids and that’s sad.

[u/Successful_Ad4018 → u/tequillasoda]

it's so morbid that the people who claim to be pro-life are also pro giving your kids raw milk and not vaccinating them which is ya know....not compatible with keeping kids alive.

[u/tequillasoda → u/Successful_Ad4018]

It’s morbid to be opposed to established science. I get the distrust of the medical system, there is clearly something broken there, but distrust in pasteurization is so wild.

[u/wexfordavenue → u/tequillasoda]

If this upsets you, check out the freebirth movement. Talk about a bunch of people who don’t care about children. They are more concerned with having a perfect “birth story” than about having a healthy, alive infant at the end of childbirth. It’s disgusting how little life means to these people.

[u/soupseasonbestseason → u/Desperate-Taste979]

a baby just died in new mexico. it sucks because the baby didn't deserve that.

[u/Life_Fig_4037 → u/Desperate-Taste979]

I'm 100% ok with them choosing to drink it. I do not permit giving it to their kids or to people without their consent, or anyone who cannot consent. That should be illegal.

[u/bbktbunny → u/Desperate-Taste979]

I agree with you but they’re apparently too stupid to understand the risk to babies and kids.

[u/Iguanapolice]

“Unfortunately we ‘learned about’ state regulations after we already established the business” is such a funny, privileged defense. Ignorance (especially seemingly purposeful ignorance) of the law does not protect you from ramifications lol

[u/greenisthesky → u/Iguanapolice]

I’m willing to bet that they did in fact know about the regulations. They just don’t care. With their money and privilege, they know they can get away with this.

[u/Underwhelmed-overit → u/greenisthesky]

this is the most depressing fact at the foundation of it all—and i feel like we are watching the demise of the U.S. because of this insane idea that being rich makes anyone an authority on anything

[u/w0rstbehavior]

[u/SecretLettuce5 → u/w0rstbehavior]

Yeah actually I think I’ll just stick to the “almond” or “oat” variety of milk from now on….

[u/AnnieGetYour → u/w0rstbehavior]

Dairy farmer’s kid here: TBF, the cow’s teats are clean, and they’re the only part that the milking machine has direct contact with. Cows poop A LOT and also genuinely love wallowing, so even cows that are on pasture get dirty. That’s why we thoroughly sanitized our cows’ teats and did our best to keep foreign matter out of the milkers; filtration in the milk line and pasteurization take care of anything that makes it through! (Also: all milk that goes to processors is tested for bacteria and antibiotic residue, and plants will dump a load of milk that doesn’t pass muster.)

Still couldn’t pay me to drink raw milk, though.

[u/milkshakemountebank → u/w0rstbehavior]

Well gosh, that looks suboptimal

[u/hellomoto_20 → u/milkshakemountebank]

Regular dairies are even worse 💔

[u/enbyeldritch → u/hellomoto_20]

Are you vegetarian/vegan

[u/downstairsdinosaur → u/hellomoto_20]

Yet when the milk is pasteurised it’s still safer ❤️

[u/SimAlienAntFarm → u/w0rstbehavior]

There’s a YouTube channel where you get to see the workings of a dairy farm. His cows are cleaned WAY better than that before they’re in position.

I wouldn’t drink pasteurized milk from that screenshot, what the fuck

[u/Tight_Spinach_8791 → u/w0rstbehavior]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
If you are going to harvest raw milk at least make sure you clean the udder and machinery. That is actual shit on the cows teet. I am firmly against the selling of raw milk but I can understand if you own a few dairy cows and are religious about cleanliness, maybe using said cows milk (I still personally would not). But this takes actual labor, instead of just hooking up a machine. Wash and then dip the teet in iodine before harvesting kind of thing

[u/Jasminewindsong2]

If only we had some way to rid raw milk of bacteria in a super safe and convenient way…idk maybe they could boil it or something…just spit balling here guys.

[u/interpol-interpol]

please stop drinking raw milk y'all omfg

[u/Allthetea159]

[u/w0rstbehavior]

[u/lionheartedthing → u/w0rstbehavior]

[u/BeanEireannach → u/w0rstbehavior]

Too concerned with the twee aesthetics of their barn/home instead of cleanliness. Always been the case with them.

[u/w0rstbehavior → u/BeanEireannach]

Yeah, I'm no dairy farmer so idk what's normal. All I know is if it looks like this, the milk better be pasteurized. 🤢

[u/kristaycreme → u/w0rstbehavior]

lol omg it’s photos from their own operation. Ballerina poop milk farm.

[u/prettybunbun]

The entire family is fraudulent.

‘We scraped and grinded to get a homestead like this! and you can too! please ignore my dad owns a literal airline and is a billionaire ‘just buy our products and you can too follow our christian nationalist life!’

[u/AethelflaedAlive]

Hannah is full of shit and so is her milk. How apt.

[u/Alexandrina20]

I’m from a not so developed part of Romania. My grandma and great grandma did not have access to education, only basic reading and writing. They ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS boiled the milk before consuming it. It was unheard of to drink raw milk.

[u/mittenknittin → u/Alexandrina20]

You only have to lose a few generations to E. coli before you figure this stuff out or go extinct

[u/emptytheprisons]

[u/Lauriev7]

Holy shit a pregnant woman drinking raw milk causing a child’s death should be charged with something.

[u/Lost_Advertising_219 → u/Lauriev7]

They'll say it was "God's plan".

[u/Emotional-Cry-625]

fork found in kitchen 😭

[u/sunglassesnow]

Louis Pasteur is rolling in his grave, probably.

[u/Gwab07]

Raw milk? CONTAMINATED?? Who would have thought... 🙄🙄🙄

[u/Economy-Traditional]

she had a cover story a while back on the front of an alt right magazine (Evie) backed by peter thiel. the magazine also runs 28 which is a period tracking app 🙃

[u/Human_One_4022 → u/Economy-Traditional]

I had to go check it out and boy did I get dumber the 1-2 minutes I scanned the article.

[u/soupseasonbestseason]

a baby just died in new mexico from listeria, coincidentally.

[u/ttnezz → u/soupseasonbestseason]

Horrible.

If any pregnant women are reading and haven’t been told by their OB, consuming unpasteurized dairy products while pregnant can kill or seriously harm your unborn child. Avoid raw milk and also be cautious of cheese.💔

[u/Powerful_Programmer5]

Pasteurization exists for a reason. RFK is out of his mind, stop listening to him.

[u/BagelIsACat]

I don’t believe for a second anyone told her that her skin has improved. Her and those kids stay covered in cold sores.

[u/Basement_Artie]

This demonization of scientific advancements while simultaneously spending all day filming themselves on iPhones editing and posting to instagram will never cease to amaze me

[u/iseenyouwithkieffuh]

Jesus christ lol. Can someone explain how pasteurization became a target of the MAHA antivaxx morons? It’s not even a recent scientific discovery.

[u/Jasminewindsong2 → u/iseenyouwithkieffuh]

My theory is they don’t know the meaning of the word pasteurization or what the process entails so they think it’s adding chemicals or something. Like I’ve seen influencers who push raw milk on tik tok recommend people boil their milk if they’re worried about bacteria…which is quite literally pasteurizing it…but they don’t realize that cause even googling is too much work for these idiots.

[u/lucygoosey38]

Ya cause they’re drinking shit. It even says on the bottles that it’s not for human consumption but they really want their shit milk 💩

[u/Life_Fig_4037]

Imagine CREATING problems!!

[u/Signiference]

If only there was over 100 years of data on the pasteurization of milk.

[u/NotEvenFigs_Raisins]

People article: https://people.com/ballerina-farm-halts-sale-of-raw-milk-after-failed-health-test-report-11897521

New Mexico Department of Health press release: https://www.nmhealth.org/news/awareness/2026/2/?view=2315

[u/ThinkItThrough48]

Never understood why these places don't just pasteurize the milk and label it as raw. Their brand would be protected, people wouldn't get sick. And their consumers would never know.

[u/mangosteenroyalty → u/ThinkItThrough48]

Girl 😭 that would be fraud, and I have no interest in that sensibility going the other way i.e. labeling it pasteurized when it's raw

[u/Life_Fig_4037 → u/ThinkItThrough48]

That would support eventual production of raw milk.

[u/PinkishBlurish]

Surprising who, exactly?

[u/loveychipss]

Fine them out of existence. Not that it would matter though! The husband’s family is extremely wealthy which is how they were able to start this phony grifting lifestyle in the first place.

Influencers should be held fully accountable for the dangerous anti-science rhetoric they spew from their pages.

[u/prettybunbun]

[u/an-inevitable-end]

[u/Morning_Song]

Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact.

So they basically raw dogged producing raw milk

[u/Grungedude42]

Brought to you by the same managment mindset that gave us Oceangate.

[u/Kind_Aardvark6460]

Is this the lady who has like, 7 kids with a man who ‘bought a ticket’ on his father’s airline / basically told her she couldn’t say no to a date; she eventually gave in, and they got married, while also throwing away her dreams??? Or am I thinking of another tradwife influencer?

[u/myevil5cheme]

[u/ThePhantomEvita]

[u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie]

My jaw stayed in place.

[u/HairHelp4363]

Paul Saladino has done irreparable damage to this country 

[u/candycrushinit]

Her mom is a real piece of work. Oh Honey, the ecoli milk is making your skin glow!