🚜🧬 Researchers compared two similar communities with different #farming techniques to study immune system development.

#Amish #children who grow up around traditional manual farming show a much lower risk of #allergies than #Hutterite children who live on modernized industrial farms. The study suggests that early exposure to diverse environmental #microbes found in barns helps train our immune system to ignore harmless allergens.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/amish-dont-develop-allergies-33/

#biology #health #science #immunology #research #medicine #nature #education

Amish Kids Almost Never Get Allergies and Scientists Finally Know Why

How Amish barns could hold the secret to preventing the onset of allergies.

ZME Science
Nearby Hutterite development could leave Gimli on hook for 'millions' and risks polluting lake: mayor
Gimli's mayor says he doesn't want to help foot the bill for the development of a Hutterite colony at the rural municipality's doorstep. Kevin Chudd is concerned the project will put the rural municipality on the hook for "potentially millions of dollars" in expenses while it receives ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crystal-springs-hutterite-colony-gimli-armstrong-9.7172734?cmp=rss
I was a Hutterite teen in crisis, so I called a kids' help line. If you're in crisis, you should too
Kaylee Maendel had an idylic childhood, growing up on a Hutterite colony in southern Manitoba. But when she experienced mental health challenges in her teens, she sought help. Now she shares her story to help others in crisis.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/first-person-hutterite-teen-crisis-9.7163382?cmp=rss
I was a Hutterite teen in crisis, so I called a kids' help line. If you're in crisis, you should too
Kaylee Maendel had an idylic childhood, growing up on a Hutterite colony in southern Manitoba. But when she experienced mental health challenges in her teens, she sought help. Now she shares her story to help others in crisis.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/first-person-hutterite-teen-crisis-9.7163382?cmp=rss

Getting stared at whilst wearing my #ElastomericRespirator in public is nothing new, but today was, IMO, notable.

A youngish couple (maybe mid-30s) didn't do a #DoubleTake, or even a #TripleTake, but a #QuadrupleTake.

The *particularly* unusual part? They were clearly both #Hutterite owing to their clothing and hairstyles.

🤔😀

#abhealth
#Alberta
#CovidIsNotOver

I had the privilege of visiting the Springview Hutterite Colony School, an hour south of Drumheller yesterday, to speak to students about the work of the Senate, and our upcoming soil study. Then the kids proudly showed me around the colony. It was a magical day. #SenateofCanada #Alberta #soilhealth #Hutterite

Hey Mastodon, anyone know where I can find a copy of the documentary "Born Hutterite" to purchase?

I saw it on tv once upon a time and have thought about it now and then for years. Great story of what it's like to leave fundamentalism behind. But every time I search, there's one copy in a library in Canada and nowhere else.

#BornHutterite #Hutterite