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Hannah Neeleman — the influencer referred to as Ballerina Farm on Instagram — has lengthy been a fan of uncooked milk. She claims unpasteurized dairy has cleared up her pores and skin, and he or she feeds her youngsters milk straight from the udders of the household’s cows. (Apparently, she strains the dust out first.) The truth is, she and her husband Daniel are so keen about raw-milk merchandise that they determined to purchase a truckload of Jersey cows and begin their very own dairy. Final yr, they opened a roadside farm stand, which they marketed as Utah’s premier vacation spot for all of your raw-milk wants.
Nevertheless it sounds prefer it didn’t take lengthy for the realities of fundamental meals security to derail their plans. In response to a brand new report from KPCW, shortly after the Neelemans opened their farm stand, the farm’s uncooked milk failed two security assessments. KPCW reviewed information from the Utah Division of Agriculture and Meals and located that samples examined in Could and June had excessive ranges of coliform, the household of micro organism that features E. coli. That’s not precisely stunning, on condition that the CDC has lengthy suggested towards consuming uncooked milk, since it’s way more seemingly than pasteurized milk to include pathogens that can make you sick.
Fortunately, it was sufficient for the Neelemans to pause their raw-milk operations. A spokesperson for Ballerina Farm informed KPCW that after the assessments, the corporate determined to promote solely pasteurized-milk merchandise at its farm stand and retailer. (Whereas it’s not clear precisely when the corporate stopped promoting uncooked milk, by July it was leaping within the feedback to make clear that the milk in its controversial tender serve was pasteurized.) “Producing uncooked milk takes cautious planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint,” Daniel Neeleman mentioned in a press release to The Lower. “Sadly, we discovered this after the very fact.” He additionally harassed that the State of Utah requires day by day testing for uncooked milk merchandise, and “any uncooked milk bought from our stand handed.”
Nevertheless it sounds just like the Neelemans haven’t fully given up. Daniel mentioned that whereas “the way in which our dairy was constructed is good for pasteurized dairy merchandise,” they plan to construct a second dairy “made particularly for uncooked milk merchandise.” Till that pans out, it seems to be like they’ve pivoted to promoting “low temp” pasteurized cream-top entire milk. When you froth it up with a few of their limited-batch Pumpkin Pie Farmer Protein, they are saying it’s completely scrumptious.
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