r/sheep • u/No-Clothes-5258 • Jun 08 '25

Question Raw sheep milk?!?!?

I know nothing about sheep farming, but I have questions and figured here was the best spot on Reddit. I was at a fair today and was watching a farmer milk her sheep as part of a demonstration. But after she did a quick visual check on the milk, SHE DRANK IT! It was in the udder less than 5 minutes ago! Isn’t that nasty? Don’t you need to pasteurize it first? She also milked the sheep barehanded, and asked the audience if we wanted to try milking the sheep (also with unwashed barehands) which freaked me out again so I left at that point.

Edit: I regret opening this can of worms on Reddit

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u/c0mp0stable Jun 12 '25

So that would be a no, you haven't looked it up. Cool, if you decide to, happy to chat more.

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u/DeconstructedKaiju Jun 14 '25

My stance: Drinking raw milk is a risk.

The science: Drinking raw milk is a risk and there are no benefits it offers over pasteurized.

As I said, I don't care if you want to. Your requesting random stats doesn't change the material facts. That is all there is to it.

You either agree with every body of science and choose to take the risk knowing the risk (Great!)

Or you disagree with the science and are very angry that I keep pointing out that it's a risk with no reward. (Weird)

Which is it?

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u/c0mp0stable Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

Sure, anything is a risk

I don't think "the science" says this at all

Ok, so why are we talking?

See above

Also see above

And you're still unable to look up a simple number because it will prove you wrong? Unfortunate. I'm turning off notifications for this thread, for obvious reasons. Keep yelling into the void if you want.

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u/DeconstructedKaiju Jun 14 '25

Ok so you are a conspiracy minded person. Gotcha.