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 Postpartum Weight Retention Risk Factors and Relationship to Obesity at One Year - PMC Effect of grand multiparity on adverse maternal outcomes: A prospective cohort study Are tradwives and feminists two sides of the same coin on women’s labor? | KUER  Tia Levings on Fundie Parenting  Number of siblings and intellectual development. The resource dilution explanation - PubMed WAGES AGAINST HOUSEWORK | caring labor  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices