Former Chicken Grower on Racial Discrimination in Industrial Farming

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if people knew what kind of mess was going on just to get a piece of chicken they would stop eating whatever you do run from a poultry house do not do it you'll lose your wife you'll lose your health you lose everything that you have it's not worth it run from a chicken house run i'm carlton sanders and i'm from forest mississippi and i was a chicken grower for some 28 years for cooked foods and i lost everything i had due to the upgrades and a bunch of guys that didn't like black folks that's the bottom line i mean if people knew how much trouble we were having trying to grow these chicken they would stop eating chicken i mean it's just that simple because nobody wants to be like i am now i lost everything and pitiful looking and talking and uh people don't want to do that but now tyson and cook oh it's just like you in hell with those guys i used to cry and couldn't stand to come by here because i did everything from scratching and i'd been here for 30-something years had a beautiful garden uh you know everything was just good and perfect so you know therefore you know just made a mess out of things that have to get out and move somewhere else and relocate and you know how it is it was just hard all over was my number one house right here on the carlton sanders farm and i did this for 28 years right here at this farm right here one year and i would have had everything paid for from 750 000 down to 50 000. they found out somehow that i'm about to get everything paid for and they wanted me to do all upgrades so they would put me back in debt some 500 000 and the bank wouldn't do it first the bank was on my side so we are sick of these chicken farms and the way they operate and then all of a sudden when they got ready to cut me off and kill me then the bank pulled in with them my son got the money to buy the place and once he got the money they wouldn't let him have it the man told me said well he told my son first he said uh they trying to put your debt out of there they sold for 110 000 that's what this guy got it for how have to pay i offered him 150. it was a racial thing a black versus white and if i'd have been a white guy i never would have went through this and uh they didn't have no mercy on me and i don't wish this on nobody and uh a farmer shouldn't have to go through this you know when he's feeding america he shouldn't have to go through this nobody should have to go through what i've been going through so like i said i'm i thank god i'm i'm i'm still living and things as well as this and uh you know that just how it is uh i'm thankful and blessed chicken is the way of life in mississippi now that way you're going to find your black guys out on the truck and catching the chicken it's pretty dangerous because right now with this coroner thing out these people get sick and and and die or get sick they just roll another black guy in this place and tell them keep on getting up it's terrible if people knew what kind of mess was going on just to get a piece of chicken they would stop eating cory booker elizabeth warren senator doug jones they wanted to help so we're trying to get a bill passed as to how we can handle these problems and help other girls not to grow through what i've gone through you know i look at it like martin luther king and lewis those guys can do what i can too i want to be heard and i want to be heard from you know we were supposed to meet donald trump but he's chickened out he wouldn't do it he said he didn't think that farmer was having that much trouble he said because he didn't hear anything about it yeah just cause he don't hurt anybody that don't mean it ain't happening you know it's tough then so many people laughed at me and so many people cried you know but uh i did the best i could what i had to do and uh you know tried to make it
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Channel: NowThis Impact
Views: 327,287
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Keywords: NowThis, news, chicken farm, chicken farm house, chicken farmer, chicken farm business, chickens, chicken growers, farming, agriculture, farming while black, blm, black lives matter, racism in america, black farmers, black farming, black farmers in america, black farm owners, black farmers discrimination, racial justice
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Length: 5min 26sec (326 seconds)
Published: Tue Sep 21 2021
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