“Greetings friends of the Dungeness Valley Creamery. We are gracious for the continued support and loyalty of our customers as we face difficult times in the media recently.

Once again our farm, family, and way of life have been attacked. Most recently, misleading quotes, misinformation, and unflattering insinuations plagued last Sundays [March 21] Seattle Times article; Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe? The slanted article, which makes us out to be carelessly dirty and uneducated milk processors can be found through the link at the bottom of this email.

The fact is the Seattle Times staff reporter who wrote the article (Maureen OHagan) told us she would be doing the article with or without our input. Of course we appreciate any opportunity to provide the raw truth about our milk, so we invited her out to interview us. The on site interview lasted over four hours, not to mention many hours of follow up question and answer sessions by telephone. All we could do was let fate handle the rest and the article that made last Sundays paper is the result…

The FDA is a highly political organization that regularly approves food and drugs on the basis of who wants it approved and how much is at stake, rather than on the basis of what is best for the consumers. Yet unfortunately the truth about this complex food is buried under half truths and deliberate misinformation.

Our family combines over 80 years of experience in the dairy industry. Sarah also has as a degree in Animal Science Production Management with an emphasis on dairy from Washington State University . We practice the most clean and sanitary conditions from the milking parlor to you, our customer. We eat and drink what we produce, and are proud to be your provider of this high quality natural food.

While the Times article does touch on many important issues within the raw milk industry, we welcome you to visit the farm first hand so we can explain in more detail our procedures, and to dispel any article quotes taken out of context. We are confident you will be impressed.

We appreciate your unfailing loyalty and support and hope to be able to provide this wonderful product for years to come. Please continue to spread the word to your friends and family and educate others on the many benefits of clean and safely produced raw milk. Theyll be amazed at what theyve been missing.

Thank you and God Bless,
Dungeness Valley Creamery
Jeff & Debbie Brown
Ryan & Sarah McCarthey

1915 Towne Road
Sequim, WA 98382
www.dungenessvalleycreamery.com
willowsmb@yahoo.com
(360)683-0716

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A little about Raw Milk:
While the term raw implies that it should be cooked, raw milk is a living, unprocessed, whole food, rich in important fats and fat-soluble vitamins. Like any other food product, milk is perfectly safe when produced under humane and sanitary conditions. Its worth taking the time to learn why its so important for your health. Your body will thank you.

We do not add hormones that can be found in some pasteurized milks.

Our cows work under humane conditions.

Each of our girls are individually named and registered purebred jerseys.

Raw milk has worked for countless generations before ours.

Compare that with processed, dead foods.

Raw milk bears the label Warning: This product has not been pasteurized and may contain harmful bacteria. Pregnant women, children, the elderly, and persons with lowered resistance to disease have the highest risk of harm from use of this product.

We make every effort to produce our product as clean and safely as possible. If only all food products were labeled as accurately so people could make their own educated judgments about what they are eating.

Compare that with processed, dead foods.

Nothing needs to be added to raw milk, especially that from grass-fed cows, to make it whole or better. No vitamins. No minerals. No enriching. It’s a complete food. Your body knows exactly what to do with it and you can pronounce the one ingredient, Milk.

Compare that with processed, dead foods.

Raw milk is ultra-rich in minerals, enzymes, and amino acids. It is abundant with lipase (a fat digesting enzyme), and contains pathogen killers that can kill salmonella and inhibit growth of several other pathogens.

Why do they pasteurize?
In the pre-processed era (before about 1930 in the U.S. ) milk was considered a highly prized food. Many of you (or at least your parents) will recall a time when a plentiful local milk supply was vital to community health and well-being. This was a time when local family owned and operated farms like ours were plentiful. This was also a time when many of the illnesses which we currently suffer from were rare. During the industrialization of America, as dairies grew too large to maintain a high level of cleanliness they found it easier to pasteurize and homogenize. These processes kill all bacteria (the good and the bad), and break fat particles so the cream no longer rises to the top in an effort to extend shelf life and reduce the need for higher quality control measures.

These processes also enable the cream to be pulled off the top to produce higher profit items such as cheese, creams, sauces, butter, yogurt, buttermilk, whipping creams, cottage cheese, and much more. Then the skim is marketed and sold with the impression that it is a healthier alternative to full fat milk.

Why do the corporations and government care? Its too costly to bring large scale operations across the industry up to the quality level of a good raw milk production. This is unacceptable to company CEOs and shareholders. Furthermore, if consumers develop a taste for full fat raw milk, there goes the profits of the higher valued items previously mentioned.

For more information please visit the following links:
http://www.raw-milk-facts.com
http://www.realmilk.com

I HAVE VISITED JEFF & DEBBIE ON THEIR FARM AND SUPPORT THEM WHOLE-HEARTEDLY, AS YELM COMMUNITY BLOG READERS KNOW. UNTIL THE YELM FOOD COOP SWITCHED TO A MORE LOCAL SOURCE FOR RAW MILK, WE ONLY PURCHASED DUNGENESS VALLEY MILK.
TAKE A NICE SATURDAY DRIVE & VISIT DUNGENESS VALLEY CREAMERY – YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!