300: Farming Ballerinas
When Hannah and Daniel Neeleman recently went on camera to explain their position on raw milk, they assured their 22 million-plus following that they were going to follow regulations—with a bit of a grudge. The couple behind Ballerina Farm wasn’t going to let a little bacteria get in the way of their farming operations, so they’ll just focus on pasteurized products.
While not associated with MAHA, some of their takes on health certainly rhyme. So today we’ll get into this uber-popular feed: who they are, what they’re doing in the mountains of Utah, and how privilege plays out in farming and childbearing aesthetics.
Show Notes
Is Hannah Neeleman Mormon? Inside Ballerina Farm’s Religion After Lifestyle Controversy
The story of Ballerina Farm and the 2 co-CEOs behind it
Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children)
Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment
The Trad-Wife Revolution Is Upon Us
Ballerina Farm pauses raw milk sales after samples fail health tests
Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman explains the dairy’s decision to stop selling raw milk
JetBlue’s Founder Helped Fund A Stanford Study That Said The Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly
Hannah Neeleman’s “Viral” Glowy Skin Secret
You’ll Never Really Know Ballerina Farm
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